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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering African & African-American Studies
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
AAAS 124-1 American Protest Music Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: AAAS 124-1, MUSC 127A-1 (P)
Instructors: Cory Hunter
Description:
This course focuses on protest music in America during the 20th and 21st centuries. We will examine how music has been used throughout American history to articulate the social and political concerns of Americans. As we examine genres such as folk music, the blues, punk, rock ’n roll, hip hop, and funk, we will focus on how artists within each genre musically and verbally expressed the existential realities facing American culture. We will also look closely at specific social movements and political events - such as the labor movement, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam war, women's liberation, LGBTQ activism, and the Black Lives Matter Movement, among others - to understand how the music in each era impacted, and was impacted by, the American sociocultural milieu. 
Offered: Fall Spring
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AAAS 140-1 Religion and Black Pop Music Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Lattimore Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: AAAS 140-1, MUSC 139-1 (P), RELC 168-1
Instructors: Cory Hunter
Description: This course will examine the relationship between the religious and theological beliefs of African American musicians and their musical artistry. We will journey through various African American music genres of the 20th centuryblues, jazz, gospel, soul, funk, hip hop, etcand will study how religion has influenced performance style, lyrical content, vocality, melodic and harmonic contour, among a host of other factors.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AAAS 142-1 African-American History II since 1900 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Genesee Hall Room 309 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: AAAS 142-1, HIST 171-1 (P)
Instructors: Nicholas Bloom
Description: This course will present an introductory survey of the history of African American life from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. We will focus largely on African American history in North America and the United States, but we will consider this history in the broader context of Black diasporic and Atlantic world history during this time period. The course will cover US Reconstruction’s rise and fall, the rise and fall of the Jim Crow regime, and the period of time bookended by the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Lives Matter uprisings of the past decade. We will focus especially on the question of Black self-determination: how Black American communities and individuals have historically defined and sought to achieve self-determination; how these definitions and struggles have both shaped and been shaped by the dominant political, economic, and social structures of the United States; and how these definitions and struggles have changed over time. The course will pay particular attention to the political, social, and cultural movements that defined these eras, and how these various movements challenged, contradicted, and/or shaped one another. We will focus especially on the ways that gender, class, sexuality, and nationalism shaped these movements. 
Offered: Fall Spring
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AAAS 156-1 Intro to African-American Literature Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Bausch & Lomb Room 315 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: AAAS 156-1, ENGL 116-1 (P), GSWS 155-1
Instructors: Lamia Alafaireet
Description: This course surveys African American literature of various genres—fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography—from the late-nineteenth century to the present. As a class, we will work together to identify persistent themes in African American literature and investigate continuities and evolutions in the ways African American writers have approached those themes across time, space, and literary movements. Along the way, students can expect to learn how to analyze literary texts in terms of both form and content.

While this course is grounded in literature, students will have regular opportunities to place course texts in interdisciplinary contexts, drawing connections to Black Lives Matter, climate justice, critical race theory, etc. Featured authors may include Frederick Douglass, Angelina Weld Grimké, James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, Toni Morrison, and Ross Gay.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AAAS 165-1 Introductory Mbira Ensemble Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1830 2000 Eastman Theatre Room B12A 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Glenn West
Description: The Eastman Mbira Ensemble provides a hands-on introduction to the ancient and sophisticated musical tradition of the Shona mbira of Zimbabwe. Visiting Zimbabwean guest artists will also offer students the opportunity to delve more deeply into traditional musical practices and their cultural and spiritual context. Songs are taught aurally so no musical experience or training is required. May be repeated for credit.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AAAS 168-2 West African Drumming Beg Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1815 1930 Strong Auditorium Room 011 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AAAS 168-2, ENS 215-2, MUSC 168A-1 (P), MUSC 468-1
Instructors: Kerfala Bangoura
Description: Led by Master Drummer Fana Bangoura, the West African Drumming Ensemble is dedicated to the dynamic percussive traditions of Guinea. The ensemble combines the iconic djembe hand drum with a trio of drums played with sticks, known as dunun, sangban, and kenkeni. The powerful, multi-part relationships established by this trio of drums provide a rhythmic foundation for the ensemble, enabling djembe players to develop technique in executing both accompaniment and solo parts. Drawing upon his experience as a soloist with the internationally acclaimed groups Les Percussions de Guinée and Les Ballets Africains, Fana engages ensemble players with a wide repertory of music from various regions of Guinea, including the rhythms of the Susu, Malinke, and Baga language groups.
Offered: Fall
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AAAS 183-1 Incarceration Nation Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1025 1115 Bausch & Lomb Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
88 		Capacity     
90
Co-Located: AAAS 183-1, HIST 112-1, PSCI 224-1, RELC 183-1 (P)
Instructors: Joshua Dubler
Description: How does a country with five percent of the world's population, a country that nominally values freedom above all else, come to have nearly a quarter of the world's incarcerated people? In this survey course we investigate the history of imprisonment in the United States--as theorized and as practiced--from the founding of the republic to the present day. Special attention is paid to the politics, economics, race politics, and religious logics of contemporary mass incarceration, and to the efforts afoot to end mass incarceration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AAAS 184-1 Sansifanyi W African Dan-Drum Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1900 2015 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Kerfala Bangoura
Description: Sansifanyi is an ensemble that provides various performance opportunities both on and off-campus for intermediate and advanced students of African dance & drumming. Instructor Kerfala Bangoura trains ensemble members in a performance style that integrates dance, drumming, vocal song, and narrative elements. Dancers who enroll in Sansifanyi will learn choreographic techniques for West African dance and gain experience dancing as soloists. Dancers will also learn focus on rhythmic timing and on drumming while dancing. Drummers enrolled in Sansifanyi will learn extended percussion arrangements and techniques for accompanying choreography. They will also learn how to play the breaks required of lead drummers. Prerequisites: One of the following: DANC181 & 182, DANC 283, DANC 253, DANC 285. For Drummers one of the following: MUSC 168A, MUSC 168B, MUSC 146 OR to audition, email kerfala.bangoura@gmail.com. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AAAS 200-1 Cltrl Politics Prison Towns Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1400 1640 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: AAAS 200-1, ANTH 233-1 (P), GSWS 233-1, PSCI 225-1, RELC 230-1
Instructors: Kristin Doughty; Joshua Dubler
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Rochester sits in one of the world’s most explicitly carceral landscapes, with more than a dozen state prisons within a 90 min drive. This co-taught course is a collaborative ethnographic research project designed to examine how the presence of prisons in towns around Rochester reflects and shapes the political, economic, and cultural lives of those who live in the region. Students will be introduced to methods and practices of ethnography and conduct firsthand research on the cultural politics of prison towns. Through assigned reading, students will learn about the history, sociology, and cultural logics of Rochester and the wider region, and of mass incarceration. What does a prison mean for a person living near one? How does the presence of prisons shape people’s notions of justice, citizenship, and punishment? How do these nearby but largely invisible institutions shape the ways that we live in Rochester? Recommended prior courses: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology or Incarceration Nation
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AAAS 201-1 North Africa and the Middle East since 1838 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Hylan Building Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: AAAS 201-1, HIST 228-1 (P), HIST 228W-1
Instructors: Elias Mandala
Description: North Africa and the Middle East is in a mess: Instead of democracy, the Arab Spring delivered a military dictatorship to Egypt; Iraq and Syria are melting into warring tribal enclaves; Saudi Arabia is waging a savage war in Yemen; and the Palestinians remain an unprotected stateless people. There is a crisis, and this course introduces students to the predicament, arguing that since the first Industrial Revolution in England, the peoples of North Africa and the Middle East have refashioned their destinies in partnership with the West. Students will examine how the following encounters helped make the region as we know it: the Anglo-Turkish Convention of 1838, transition from Ottoman to West European colonialism, discovery of huge and easily extractable oil reserves, creation of the state of Israel, the Iranian Revolution of 1979, and the US Invasion of Iraq in 2003. The class will also explore how the above patterns of engagement shaped the histories of the region's working classes, women, and the peasantry.
Offered: Fall Spring
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AAAS 208-1 Si el Norte fuera el Sur: Latinx Literature and Thought    Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Lechase Room 103 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AAAS 208-1, GSWS 282-1, SPAN 282-1 (P), SPAN 482-1
Instructors: Vialcary Crisostomo
Description: How is Latinx identity expressed? What historical events have marked its social and cultural

articulation? These questions will guide the work of this course, as we discuss the historical and contemporary discourses that have shaped the lives and sociopolitical agency of Latinxs in the United States. Departing from the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s mission of Shifting the Geography of Reason, we will explore the tensions and dynamics involved in Latinx author’s thought and cultural productions. Through the analysis of literary and philosophical texts, as well as historical data and policies, we will examine projects and practices that work towards the decolonization of Power, Being and Knowledge.  Course offered in English. May be taken for Spanish credit (if writing assignments done in Spanish; prerequisite for Spanish enrollment is SPAN 200)

Readings may include works by Gloria Anzaldua, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Valeria Luiselli, Eduardo Halfon, Elizabeth Acevedo, Gabby Rivera, María Lugones
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AAAS 211-1 Ideas of America Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Lechase Room 121 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AAAS 211-1, AMST 200-1 (P), ENGL 242-2, ENGL 429-1, HIST 264-1
Instructors: John Michael
Description: What is America? A country? A continent? A political ideal? A culture? This course traces the development of ideas about America, from its historical beginnings to our own time, from European fantasies about the New World and its possibilities to the experiences of settlers and citizens facing its realities. We will explore the competing and even contending narratives of America in a wide variety of cultural documents, from orations, sermons and political tracts to novels, poems, photographs, and films.
Offered: Spring
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AAAS 212-1 Race and the Law Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
32 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: AAAS 212-1, PSCI 214-1 (P)
Instructors: Alexander Moon
Description: This course deals with questions raised at the intersection of constitutional law and sociological and political science studies of the politics and practice of race in the United States. While studying major court decisions concerning race and slavery, voting, property rights, segregation/de-segregation, criminal justice, voting, discrimination, and affirmative action, we will examine questions such as: what is the role of the legal system in constituting and perpetuating the racial order of the United States? To what extent do court rulings reflect more than they shape what actually happens outside of the legal system? How, if at all, do they shape public opinion? What are the advantages and disadvantages of courts as a tool for social change? Do answers to these questions vary by area of law and/or historical period? The course is largely discussion-based and will include readings in case law, critical legal studies, critical race theory, and works in political science and sociology.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AAAS 217-1 African American Cinema and Its Contexts Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Morey Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: AAAS 217-1, AHST 240-1 (P), AHST 440-1, FMST 211-1
Instructors: Sharon Willis
Description: This course will offer a survey of African American film and filmmakers from the early 20th century to the 21st.  Directors we will study include: Oscar Micheaux, Ivan Dixon, Melvin Van Peebles, Gordon Parks, Charles Burnett, Carl Franklin, Dee Rees, Cheryl Dunye, Julie Dash, Kasi Lemmons, Ava DuVernay, Spike Lee, John Singleton, Ryan Coogler, Jordan Peele.  We will also explore the incisive critical and theoretical work African American critics have produced in response to these films and the contexts in which they emerge.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AAAS 221-1 Energy and Power Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Meliora Room 218 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: AAAS 221-1, ANTH 243-1 (P), EHUM 243-1, GSWS 236-1
Instructors: Kristin Doughty
Description: Does it matter where our power comes from? Why or how and to whom? This course uses anthropological case studies of different kinds of energy sources (fossil fuels, nuclear, water, solar, wind) and different kinds of electrification (centralized grids versus micro-grids) around the world to think about the relationship between energy, environments, power, and culture with a specific focus on intersectional gender and sexuality. How do energy practices and cultural norms of racialized gender shape each other in various places around the world, and to what effects? What might empirical attention to how people talk about and use energy help us to understand about the energy transitions and climate crises of the 21st century?
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AAAS 222-1 Music, Ethnography & HIV/AIDS Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 540 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: AAAS 222-1, ANTH 240-1, GSWS 241-1, MUSC 236-1 (P), MUSC 436-1, PHLT 227-1
Instructors: Jennifer Kyker
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Addressing the devastating effects of HIV/AIDS in the United States, United Kingdom, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Haiti, and elsewhere, this uniquely interdisciplinary course will incorporate insights from the fields of public health, medical anthropology, and ethnomusicology. Studying the HIV/AIDS epidemic through the lens of musical expression, we will ask how individuals and communities affected by HIV/AIDS have mobilized musical sound in response to the disease. Topics addressed within the class will include musical representations of HIV/AIDS within queer communities; the use of music in public health campaigns to raise awareness about the disease; and the mobilization of musical performance within grassroots support groups for individuals affected by HIV/AIDS.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AAAS 225-1 Public Policy and Black Communities: Education, Poverty, Affirmative Action, and Crime Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1150 1240 Morey Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Alexander Moon
Description: This course examines some of the major public policy issues affecting the Black community.  We begin with a survey of the public policy making process at the local and federal levels.  The rest of the course deals with the specific groups, conflicts, institutions, and structural constraints governing the formation of public policy in the areas of education, poverty, affirmative action, and crime.  We will ask questions about the origin and nature of the problems in these areas, the explanations of why some policies and not others have been adopted, and the strengths and weaknesses of competing policy solutions.
Offered: Fall Spring
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AAAS 234-1 West African Dance: Context & Practice Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AAAS 234-1, DANC 253-1 (P)
Instructors: Kerfala Bangoura
Description: Experience dancing African styles from traditional cultures of Guinea, West Africa, as well as studying cultural history and context from which and in which they are practiced and performed. Technical emphasis will focus on musicality and complex choreographic arrangement. Students will practice dances and drum songs. Required outside work includes performance attendance, video viewing, text and article analysis, research and written work.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AAAS 247-1 Biographies of Emancipation in the Black World Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Hylan Building Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: AAAS 247-1, AAAS 447-1, CLTR 229A-1 (P), CLTR 429A-1
Instructors: Cilas Kemedjio
Description: The course main objective is to introduce students to charismatic figures such as Kwame Nkrumah, W.E.B. Dubois, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, Josephine Baker, Angela Davis and many others who contributed to the long walk to freedom in the Black World. The choice of Ghana derives from its role in the articulation of the narrative of black emancipation. The city of Accra, with the street names and various parks and monuments, is in itself an embodiment of this struggle. Students will learn in the classroom, but more importantly, they will learn by visiting selected sites of history and memory. Students will also learn by leaving and interacting with host families. The ultimate outcome expected from this course is to introduce students to Ghana as a strategic location in the global struggle for the emancipation of the Black world
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AAAS 256-1 American Renaissance Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Morey Room 303 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: AAAS 256-1, ENGL 225-1 (P), ENGL 425-1, HIST 268A-1
Instructors: John Michael
Description: We will investigate the peculiar quality of romanticism and the particular achievements of romantic writers in the United States during the period before the Civil War. Three capacious topics will organize discussions: nature and art, society and history, and individuals and communities. As part of each of these topics, we will also consider the pressures and controversies around slavery, race, and gender that were dividing the States in the decades before the Civil War. We will read works by Cooper, Childs, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Melville, Poe, Douglass, Jacobs, Hawthorne, Stowe, Whitman, Lincoln, Dickinson, and others. Of particular interest throughout the term will be the hopes and anxieties, allegiances and resistances, aesthetic triumphs and political frustrations that characters American romantic artists and have made the imagination a crucial part of the nation's life and an indispensable resource for its people even at moments when fundamental conflicts threatened to end the nation altogether.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AAAS 280-1 Humanitarianism and Social Insecurities Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lechase Room 161 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: AAAS 280-1, AAAS 412-1, CLTR 229B-1 (P), CLTR 429B-1, FREN 228-1, FREN 428-1
Instructors: Cilas Kemedjio
Description: Humanitarianism, largely understood as the ultimate of ethical acts, took root in the modern world not as a response to war or “emergencies” but as part of an effort to remake the world so that it better served the interests of humanity. Against the “hegemonic corporate forces of predatory capitalism,” aid agencies perform the work of welfare workers who are part of the network of moral discourses, religious beliefs, ethical commitments, and international norms that generate an obligation to help distant strangers.” Humanitarianism and Social Insecurities engages students in a critical understanding of humanitarianism discourses and practices through an investigation of polemics, misunderstandings, testimonials, and the creative imagination inspired by humanitarian interventions. With the recognition that “noble actions can have negative and unintended consequences”, this course takes the student from a position of moral indignation to one of a critical indignation, and ultimately, a better understanding of the practices and discourses generated by the phenomenon of charity, humanitarianism, and Social Insecurities.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AAAS 282-2 Freedom and Domination in Black Political Philosophy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 900 950 Meliora Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AAAS 282-2, PSCI 296-2, PSCI 496-1 (P)
Instructors: Alexander Moon
Description: This course is a survey of some of the canonical and some of the most exciting contemporary works in the field of African-American political thought. We begin with foundational texts from Walker, Delany, Douglass, Wells, Du Bois, Garvey, Baldwin, King, and Malcolm X. In the first half of the course we will focus on questions such as: What is the nature of the wrong(s) African Americans have suffered in the United States? What sustains systems of domination and exclusion? What responses, in addition to condemnation, do these systems of domination merit? What does the long history of white domination in the United States say about ideals of liberalism and democracy? And what is the way forward? In the second part of the course, we will read contemporary works dealing with reparations, collective responsibility, obligations to solidarity/allyship, and epistemologies of ignorance.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AAAS 298-1 Critical Race Theories Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Lechase Room 141 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Zachary Brown
Description: The purpose of this course is to provide students with a broad exposure to the genealogical legacies, conceptual developments, and canonical thinkers of race and racial theories that emerge within the discipline of Black Studies. Understanding race as a system of social organization predicated on the hierarchy of difference, this class will pay specific attention to both the socio-historical progression of racial theories and its intersections with notions of gender, sexuality, class, disability, nationality, and citizenship. Readings will include, but are not limited to, works by James Baldwin, Toni Cade Bambara, Derrick Bell, Angela Davis, Patricia Hill Collins, Cheryl Harris, bell hooks, Cedric Robinson and more. Students will ultimately leave this course with a foundational understanding of (r)evolutions in theories of race and their application in popular cultural forms and relevance to contemporary race debates. This course will count towards the “Race and Social Issues” cluster.
Offered: Fall Spring
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AAAS 327-1 Sansifanyi:West African Dance & Drum Ensemble Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1845 2015 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Kerfala Bangoura
Description: Sansifanyi offers experienced dancers the opportunity to study West African dance forms as well as studying cultural history and context from which and in which they are performed at a professional level. This course requires a high degree of student commitment. Dancers who enroll in Sansifanyi will learn choreographic techniques for West African dance and gain experience dancing as soloists. They will also focus on rhythmic timing, and on advanced skills such as how to combine movement with drumming. In addition to the time students spend in class, dancers in the ensemble are expected to spend several hours per week researching, reading, writing, viewing videos, text and article analysis, practicing, and choreographing various rhythms, songs, movements, and sequences. Dancers must also be available for performances both on and off campus throughout the semester.   Clusters: Improvisation and the Creative Process, Movement and Culture, Dance and Performance. Prerequisite: Audition on first day of class or for dancers, one of the following: DANC 181/182, DANC 283, DANC 253, DANC 285: For drummers one of the following: MUSC 168A, MUSC 168B, MUSC 146
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AAAS 412-1 Humanitarianism and Social Insecurities Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lechase Room 161 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: AAAS 280-1, AAAS 412-1, CLTR 229B-1 (P), CLTR 429B-1, FREN 228-1, FREN 428-1
Instructors: Cilas Kemedjio
Description: Humanitarianism, largely understood as the ultimate of ethical acts, took root in the modern world not as a response to war or “emergencies” but as part of an effort to remake the world so that it better served the interests of humanity. Against the “hegemonic corporate forces of predatory capitalism,” aid agencies perform the work of welfare workers who are part of the network of moral discourses, religious beliefs, ethical commitments, and international norms that generate an obligation to help distant strangers.” Humanitarianism and Social Insecurities engages students in a critical understanding of humanitarianism discourses and practices through an investigation of polemics, misunderstandings, testimonials, and the creative imagination inspired by humanitarian interventions. With the recognition that “noble actions can have negative and unintended consequences”, this course takes the student from a position of moral indignation to one of a critical indignation, and ultimately, a better understanding of the practices and discourses generated by the phenomenon of charity, humanitarianism, and Social Insecurities.
Offered: Fall Spring
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AAAS 447-1 Biographies of Emancipation in the Black World Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Hylan Building Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: AAAS 247-1, AAAS 447-1, CLTR 229A-1 (P), CLTR 429A-1
Instructors: Cilas Kemedjio
Description: This course explores the sites and figures who contributed to the emancipation of the Black world, understood here as the African continent and peoples of African descent. The course's main objective is to introduce students to charismatic figures such as Kwame Nkrumah, W.E.B. Dubois, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, Josephine Baker, Angela Davis and many others who contributed to the long walk to freedom in the Black World. Students will also learn by leaving and interacting with host families. The ultimate outcome expected from this course is to introduce students to Ghana as a strategic location in the global struggle for the emancipation of the Black world.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
AHST 100-1 Introduction to Visual and Cultural Studies Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Morey Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
29 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: AHST 100-1 (P), GSWS 123-1
Instructors: Sharon Willis
Description: The aim of this course is two-fold: First, to develop an understanding of the extraordinary variety of ways meaning is produced in visual culture; secondly, to enable students to analyze and describe the social, political and cultural effects of these meanings. By studying examples drawn from contemporary art, film, television, digital culture, and advertising we will learn techniques of analysis developed in response to specific media and also how to cross-pollinate techniques of analysis in order to gain greater understanding of the complexity of our visual world. Grades are based on response papers, class attendance and participation, and a midterm and a final paper. Occasional film screenings will be scheduled as necessary in the course of the semester.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 102-1 Intro to Media Studies Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Meliora Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
64 		Capacity     
64
Co-Located: AHST 102-1 (P), ENGL 118-1, FMST 131-1
Instructors: Joel Burges
Description: This course introduces students to the theory and practice of media studies. We will look at a range of both media and historical tendencies related to the media, including manuscript culture, print, and the rise of the newspaper, novel, and modern nation-state; photography, film, television and their respective differences as visual mediums; important shifts in attitudes towards painting; the place of sound in the media of modernity; and the computerization of culture brought about by the computer, social networks, video games, and cell phones. In looking at these, we will consider both the approaches that key scholars in the field of media studies use, and the concepts that are central to the field itself (media/medium; medium-specificity; remediation; the culture industry; reification and utopia; cultural politics). By the end of the class, students will have developed a toolkit for understanding, analyzing, and judging the media that shape their lives in late modernity.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 114-1 Creating Architecture Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1640 Sage Arts Center Room 103 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: AHST 114-1 (P), SART 114-1
Instructors: Joshua Enck
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Buildings are among the most public, visible, and long lived artifacts that a culture creates.  The built environment serves as both a repository of cultural information and exerts an influence that extends beyond the society that created it.  Architecture is art in a physical, three dimensional reality; it responds to the limitations of technology, design, and space while materializing ideals of aesthetics and beauty.  Famous designers, trained architects, anonymous craftspeople, and laypeople alike create architectural forms. 

This studio art course will introduce the ways in which we design, create, study, and convey architecture.  We will investigate practices of architectural design, history, building craft, and engineering in this class through lectures, research, in-class exercises, and thematic assignments.  The course will culminate with a fully realized design for a small building of your own invention.  This course will challenge you to recognize precedent forms and to create designs of your own, from sketch to 3D model making, that explore basic design elements.  Skills explored in this course can be used to gain a better understanding of the built world around us and pursue further studies in architecture.

This course is open to all majors, and prior architecture study is not required. If the course fills and you would like to be added to the waitlist, fill out the form found at this link: https://www.sageart.center/resources.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 127-1 Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Hylan Building Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: AHST 127-1 (P), ATHS 155-1
Instructors: Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer
Description: This course will introduce students to the art, architecture, and archeology of ancient Egypt, from the Predynastic Period until the country’s inclusion into the Roman Empire. This course will highlight the wide range of materials encountered in Egyptian archaeology—architectural remains in secular, sacred, and funerary contexts; material culture (pottery, stone and wooden artifacts, artistic creations); human and faunal remains; written documents; iconographic material—and will evaluate how they reflect the cultural, social, and political organization of each major period of Egyptian history. Special attention will be given to both Egypt’s interconnections with its neighbors—Nubians, Libyans, and inhabitants of Syria-Palestine—and the impact of religion on the artistic production. Material will be presented to the students in the form of lectures, student-led discussions on specific readings and topics, and guest lectures.
Offered: Fall Spring
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AHST 128-1 Modern Art Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Hylan Building Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
27 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Rachel Haidu
Description: This course introduces students to art made from the late 19th century to the present. We examine the various movements in their historical contexts, from Impressionism and post-Impressionism through Cubism, Abstraction Expressionism, Pop and Minimalism, as well as contemporary developments like installation and performance art. We consider how issues of gender, technological developments, and wars and social movements have affected art. The course is taught through a combination of lecture and discussion, and we will be constantly looking at images to understand how ideas, social change, and history are refracted in works of modern art.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 136-1 Intro to the Art of Film Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
29 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: AHST 136-1, ENGL 117-1 (P), FMST 132-1
Instructors: Jason Middleton
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The primary visual, aural, and narrative structures and conventions by which motion pictures create and comment upon significant human experience.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 140-1 Archaeological Thought Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1000 1245 Rush Rhees Library Room 442 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AHST 140-1, ATHS 210-1 (P), CLST 134-1, HIST 117-1
Instructors: Stefanie Bautista San Miguel
Description: How did archaeology come to be the way it is now? This course will survey some of the major theoretical trends that have shaped anthropological archaeology. More specifically, students will learn how anthropological theory has influenced the interpretive frameworks and epistemologies of archaeological inference. We will spend half of the semester focusing on early archaeological theory, and the second half on topics and theories that are now central in archaeology. By the end of this course, students should be able to define and identify the major theories in archaeology that include culture-history, processualism, post-processualism, middle-range theory, Marxism, agency, identity, feminist, community, and indigenous archaeology.
Offered: Spring
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AHST 172-1 Topics in GSWS: TV Dreams and Gendered Screens Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Meliora Room 218 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: AHST 172-1, FMST 103-1, GSWS 100-1 (P)
Instructors: Madeline Ullrich
Description: Is television a gendered medium? Given the prevalence of cop shows and male anti-heroes that characterize “peak” or quality TV (both past and present), many would assume that television is a “masculine” medium, made up of “masculine” genres. However, the history of television says otherwise. This course traces the numerous ways that television—as an institution, an industry, a narrative form, and a social space—becomes aligned with various notions of gender, in the form of femininity, domesticity, feminism, “women’s culture,” and the female consumer, all at different historical moments. What these different historical moments do share, however, is the assumption that the female television viewer is always coded as white, middle class, cisgender, and able-bodied. To examine how representations of gender have taken shape on television, we will study television chronologically, spanning television sitcoms and soap operas of the 1950s and 1960s, to the rise of feminist television (Julia, The Mary Tyler Moore Show) in the 1970s, to images of “working women” in the 1980s and 90s. In the final weeks of the seminar, we will discuss the rise of streaming television, “narrowcasting,” and contemporary attempts of intersectionality on television—and how new forms of television have created new ways of thinking about gender.
Offered: Fall Spring
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AHST 183-1 Beyond Banksy: A Critical Introduction to Street Art and Graffiti Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Morey Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Julia Tulke
Description: Despite its rich historical lineages and ever-evolving significance as a cultural practice, popular and scholarly perceptions of graffiti and street art remain firmly grounded in a narrow set of endlessly over-rehearsed debates (art vs. vandalism), origin stories (graffiti is from New York), and fetishized figures (Banksy). This course departs from such sedimented notions, offering a critical introduction to the study of street art and graffiti, understood broadly as self-authorized interventions into public space. Building an interdisciplinary framework grounded in urban studies, anthropology, sociology, art history, and cultural studies, we will deploy a dialectical approach that considers street art and graffiti as site-specific visual artifacts and as performative practices with the potential to actively transform public space and reimagine everyday life. Visual objects such as photographic archives, zines, documentaries, and digital collections will form an integral part of the course. Through field trips and guest speakers, students will be prompted to engage themes and methods discussed in the class within their immediate local context of Rochester.  
Offered: Fall Spring
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AHST 199-1 Ancient Cities of the Mediterranean Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lechase Room 160 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
14
Co-Located: AHST 199-1, CLST 131-1 (P), HIST 104-1
Instructors: Elizabeth Colantoni
Description: This course examines the phenomenon of urbanism in the ancient Mediterranean world. After a brief consideration of the rise of cities in western Asia and Egypt, the course focuses on the cities and colonies of ancient Greece and of the Roman Empire, with special attention devoted to Athens and Rome. Topics covered include town planning, public and private spaces and building types, urban life, and colonization, as seen through the archaeological remains of cities located around the Mediterranean basin and beyond.  There are no prerequisites for this course.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 208-1 Cities of the World: Babylon to Brasilia Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Morey Room 525 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: AHST 208-1 (P), AHST 408-1
Instructors: Nader Sayadi
Description: Cities of the World explores the histories of a selected group of global cities during notable moments in their social, economic, and political lives. It spans roughly 40 centuries from ancient Mesopotamia to post-world war South America to investigate how cities have been made by, and have made, humans. This course will focus on one or two cities based on a theme each week and discuss the urban built environment and monumental architecture in their historical context. In this course, students will learn about the history of major cities such as Rome, Cairo, Tenochtitlan, Angkor, Paris, Beijing, Isfahan, New York, and Brasília. More importantly, they will comprehend critical social, economic, and political themes from the “Agricultural Revolution” to Capitalism. Finally, they practice how to “read” urban spaces by developing their spatial analytical skills in historical contexts.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 215-1 Seminar on Contemporary Art: Museums Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Morey Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: AHST 215-1 (P), AHST 415-1
Instructors: Rachel Haidu
Description: This course looks at how artists as well as museums themselves have been "critiquing" the
museum for generations, and at how museums are reinventing themselves under present day
pressures. Battles rage over who art belongs to––from indigenous peoples to the artists
themselves––and over how to conserve and display it. And on the flip side, museums have to
adapt to a world in which artworks are visible on our tiny screens. What do we make of the
many distinctions—between art and non-art, between ownership and stewardship, between
present and past, between performance and object—that museums are built on, and are
continually redefining? Through readings and potentially a visit to NYC's museums and
galleries, this seminar will examine these issues.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 219-1 The 21st Century Art Museum: An Introduction to Museum Studies Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1235 1525 Morey Room 524 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AHST 219-1 (P), AHST 419-1
Instructors: Nile Blunt
Description: This course explores key topics related to the social, cultural, and political contexts of art museums in the 21st century. A broad overview of the academic and professional field of museum studies will be presented alongside an in-depth examination of specific topics of concern to museum professionals. These topics include: the roles of the museum in society; the relationship between the museum and the artist; the ways in which museums engage communities; and how museums are reckoning with issues of diversity, equity and inclusion. The Memorial Art Gallery (where much of this course will be taught) will serve as a case study for many contemporary issues in museum studies. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 225-1 Greek Art & Archaeology Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Harkness Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: AHST 225-1, CLST 230-1 (P), CLST 230W-1
Instructors: Elizabeth Colantoni
Description: This course examines the physical remains of ancient Greek civilization, with an emphasis on architecture, sculpture, painting, and other visual arts, in order to understand Greek culture and society. There are no prerequisites for this course.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 231-1 Gallery Practicum Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 900 1140 Sage Arts Center Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
6
Co-Located: AHST 231-1 (P), SART 279-1
Instructors: Megan Scheffer
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This class will consider the relationship of art exhibition and production in contemporary art practices as part of a gallery practicum. This course is an introduction to art exhibition practices including research, curation, planning, art handling, installation, and hands-on experience in galleries. Students will install exhibitions in the teaching galleries and spaces on campus, including (but not limited to) Hartnett Gallery and Frontispace Gallery. Students will visit galleries and museums and attend exhibition openings, studio visits, and artist lectures.
Offered: Fall Spring
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AHST 232-1 Art History and Ethnoarchaeology of West Africa Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 413 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AHST 232-1, ANTH 296-1, ATHS 212-1 (P), HIST 220-1
Instructors: William Gblerkpor
Description: What do we know about the contemporary and past cultures and societies of West Africa? How has the nature and role of art and visual cultures of West Africa changed over time? And how has our knowledge about West Africa’s past and contemporary societies and cultures been produced and disseminated? This course is made up of two parts.  The first explores historic and contemporary societies and cultures of West Africa, focusing on the inception and development of complex societies of the sub-region between 2500 B.C. to the present. The second part of the course explores the character and meaning of contemporary and historic art works and artifacts of West Africa.
Offered: Spring
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AHST 240-1 African American Cinema and Its Contexts Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Morey Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: AAAS 217-1, AHST 240-1 (P), AHST 440-1, FMST 211-1
Instructors: Sharon Willis
Description: This course will offer a survey of African American film and filmmakers from the early 20th century to the 21st.  Directors we will study include: Oscar Micheaux, Ivan Dixon, Melvin Van Peebles, Gordon Parks, Charles Burnett, Carl Franklin, Dee Rees, Cheryl Dunye, Julie Dash, Kasi Lemmons, Ava DuVernay, Spike Lee, John Singleton, Ryan Coogler, Jordan Peele.  We will also explore the incisive critical and theoretical work African American critics have produced in response to these films and the contexts in which they emerge.
Offered: Fall Spring
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AHST 244-1 Monuments of Ancient Italy Arezzo Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Alessandra Baroni
Description: When we look at works of art in museums, galleries, and churches we are, in most cases, looking at them out of context. Furthermore, when we look at early Renaissance paintings we do not see them through the eyes of the people who produced them or for whom they were produced. We have to learn to see them as they might have been seen. We can begin to do this by learning how to read and to interpret the complex elements at play beneath the immediate surface by setting the artist, his work, and his public in their social and religious historical contexts, and by exploring the universal unspoken language of signs and symbols used by artists. The course content is based on painted forms, i.e., panels, canvases, and frescos from the Trecento and Quattrocento with an emphasis on Tuscan painting. The selection, as far as possible, takes advantage of the availability of works in churches, museums, and galleries within easy visiting distance of Arezzo.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 259-1 Islamic Textiles: Society, Economy, Politics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Morey Room 502 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: AHST 259-1 (P), AHST 459-1
Instructors: Nader Sayadi
Description: This course explores textiles as vital objects in human lives for millennia. It explores a selection of these luxurious textiles and their intersection with social, economic, and political lives in the Islamic world between the ninth to the eighteenth centuries. At the end of the semester, students will have an overall picture of Islamic dynastic history, its broad geographical expansion from Spain to India, and its cultural themes such as political system, social structure, economic sectors, religious rituals, cross-cultural exchanges, diplomatic gifting, royal leisure, and funerary practices. This course invites students to see artifacts as not merely passive objects but active agents in history as well as their everyday lives. It also discusses a few technical aspects of weaving textiles and looks at textiles as three-dimensional objects. Finally, this course will assist students with developing their critical thinking, research, and writing as crucial skills to succeed in their future careers through weekly readings, visual analysis, in-class discussions, and research projects.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 260-1 Tourist Japan Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Hylan Building Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Joanne Bernardi
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Focused on but not limited to the first half of the 20th century, this course explores representations of Japan in a wide range of visual and material culture: e.g., ephemera generated by tourism, education and entertainment; advertisements and souvenirs; and wartime propaganda traveling similar routes of exchange. Travel brochures, guidebooks, photographs, postcards, films and other objects reflect changing concepts of urban space, rural culture, industry, geography, and military and political authority. Recurrent iconography and coded images link tourism and educational objects and images with evolving concepts of and questions regarding modernity, nationalism and cultural identity: e.g., how is the meaning of “modernity” in Japan useful to a study of the continuous transformation of culture in specific contexts, as in the transition from ukiyo-e culture to photography and animated films? This lecture/discussion course has a digital component: students work hands-on with the Re-Envisioning Japan Collection and digital archive, learning both critical analysis and digital curation skills. The course includes weekly film assignments and one field trip each to the Memorial Art Gallery and George Eastman Museum. No audits. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 275-1 Paper and Death/Critical Paper Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Morey Room 524 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: AHST 275-1 (P), AHST 475-1
Instructors: Christopher Heuer
Description: This seminar attends to the vast proliferation of printed material in Europe between 1450-1700, to print’s reception, critical history, materiality and use. Participants will focus on the conceptual, social, and economic facets of print through weekly discussions of engravings, etchings, woodcuts, and books. While our attention will be directed towards specific material techniques and technologies (e.g. hand-coloring, reproductive engraving) chiefly in Northern Europe, we will concern ourselves also with the many modalities of print’s reception throughout the world, with mechanical reproductions’ role in shaping (or defying) early modern habits of mind, with the way print inflected notions of authorship, with the manner in which print’s historical agency has been understood, and more urgently, with the new politics of "replicative" media today   Topics to be discussed include: intaglio processes, the collecting, copyright, sale, and marketing of devotional engravings; Protestant-Catholic propaganda and broadsheets; print and identity formation in the Renaissance workshop; natural history, science, cartography, and astrononomy's use of reproduceable images; documentation of the New World; demarcations of high/low culture; the idea of pictures as evidence. We will spend time in the Memorial Art Gallery with works by Dürer, Raimondi, Schedel, Bruegel, Altdorfer, Ortelius, Cock, van Leyden, Ghisi, Callot, Breydenbach, and Rembrandt, as well as with treatises and essays on the early collecting of prints. Readings will include selections from Chartier, Benjamin, Ong, Grafton, McLuhan, Koerner, Latour, de Piles, Warburg, Deleuze, and others.
Offered: Fall Spring
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AHST 282-1 History of Graphic Design Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Morey Room 502 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AHST 282-1, DMST 271-1 (P)
Instructors: Nancy Bernardo
Description: This course provides students with knowledge and understanding of the places, people, events; historical and cultural factors; and technological innovations that have influenced the development of graphic design into the practice that it is today. This course examines both the dominant cultural ideas embodied by Graphic Design, as well as the counter-narratives it generates to express diverse cultural identities. Students in this course will question the meaning and form of graphic artifacts.
Offered: Spring
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AHST 286A-1 Climate Change and the African Cultural Heritage Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Lattimore Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AHST 286A-1, ATHS 233A-1 (P), SUST 233A-1
Instructors: William Gblerkpor
Description: This course explores how climate change is causing the loss and damage of cultural heritage sites across Africa. It examines the continent’s cultural landscape heritage and assesses threats and impacts of rising temperatures, wetter climates, rising sea levels, and human migration on the survival and futures of Africa’s past. Africa’s long history of humankind and the peoples encounters with other cultures of the world, have created and shaped a rich and diverse cultural heritage that needs safeguarding.
Offered: Spring
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AHST 300-1 Art New York New Field Studio Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Heather Layton
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The Art New York Field Studio course will utilize the resources of New York City as a starting point for creative production. The course will be conducted primarily online, with face-to-face meetings with the professor spread throughout the semester. Projects will take students outside into the city to make art with a rotating variety of media, including photography, video, sound, and installation, with an emphasis on collaboration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 305K-1 Art New York Colloquim Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Heather Layton
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: As an integral part of the internship program, all students participating in ANY will meet weekly with the program's resident director. The class will visit museums, art galleries, film & media screenings, & learn from these visits through readings, papers, presentations & discussions. The colloquium will also serve to provide an intellectual framework for understanding the operations of the NY art world & to allow students to discuss with one another their experiences at the various institutions where they intern. Each student will be expected to make a presentation about their internship to the ANY group. There will be an entrepreneurial component which will introduce the students to a wide variety of entrepreneurial activity & innovative practices within arts and culture. Through guest speakers, seminars & field trips the students will learn how entrepreneurial endeavors develop. By the end of the semester, the students will create their own proposal for an entrepreneurial project.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 346-1 Arctic Vision Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Morey Room 524 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AHST 346-1 (P), AHST 546-1, EHUM 346-1
Instructors: Christopher Heuer
Description: When Spanish and Portuguese explorers stumbled upon a sunny "America" that was new to them, they encountered balmy wonders – armadillos, cities, and gold. By contrast, when the English crashed into their own unseen continent a century later, they landed in the arctic, and found, to some extent, nothing. Icy, unpopulated, commodity- poor, visually and temporally “abstract,” the Far North - a different kind of terra incognita for the early modern imagination than the sun-drenched Indies, offered no clear stuff to be seen or exploited. With this, this seminar contends, the Arctic quietly yet powerfully challenged older narratives of world- and picture-making. Neither a continent, nor an ocean, nor a meteorological circumstance, the Arctic forced explorers, writers, and early artists from England, the Netherlands, and Germany to grapple with a different kind of “ecology.” Here, there were virtually no exotic animals, teeming forests, or enchanting civilizations to study, exploit, or exterminate - yet. In the frigid North, that is, the idea of description as a kind of accumulative endeavor of “representation” - of exoticism as synonymous with abundance - was thrown into question; the North was unsettling not because of dazzling difference, but because of monotonous sameness. Rather than an Eden, to Renaissance travelers the arctic was something like the moon.
Offered: Fall Spring
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AHST 392A-1 Practicum - Art NY Spring 2023 8.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Heather Layton
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 393-1 Art History Honors Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Joan Saab
Description: See 'Requirements for Honors in Art History.'
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 395-1 Independent Research Spring 2023 Lecture Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Description: Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 408-1 Cities of the World: Babylon to Brasilia Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Morey Room 525 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: AHST 208-1 (P), AHST 408-1
Instructors: Nader Sayadi
Description: Cities of the World explores the histories of a selected group of global cities during notable moments in their social, economic, and political lives. It spans roughly 40 centuries from ancient Mesopotamia to post-world war South America to investigate how cities have been made by, and have made, humans. This course will focus on one or two cities based on a theme each week and discuss the urban built environment and monumental architecture in their historical context. In this course, students will learn about the history of major cities such as Rome, Cairo, Tenochtitlan, Angkor, Paris, Beijing, Isfahan, New York, and Brasília. More importantly, they will comprehend critical social, economic, and political themes from the “Agricultural Revolution” to Capitalism. Finally, they practice how to “read” urban spaces by developing their spatial analytical skills in historical contexts.
Offered: Spring
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AHST 415-1 Seminar on Contemporary Art: Museums Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Morey Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: AHST 215-1 (P), AHST 415-1
Instructors: Rachel Haidu
Description: This course looks at how artists as well as museums themselves have been "critiquing" the museum for generations, and at how museums are reinventing themselves under present day pressures. Battles rage over who art belongs to––from indigenous peoples to the artists themselves––and over how to conserve and display it. And on the flip side, museums have to adapt to a world in which artworks are visible on our tiny screens. What do we make of the many distinctions—between art and non-art, between ownership and stewardship, between present and past, between performance and object—that museums are built on, and are continually redefining? Through readings and potentially a visit to NYC's museums and galleries, this seminar will examine these issues.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 419-1 The 21st Century Art Museum: An Introduction to Museum Studies Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1235 1525 Morey Room 524 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AHST 219-1 (P), AHST 419-1
Instructors: Nile Blunt
Description: This course explores key topics related to the social, cultural, and political contexts of art museums in the 21st century. A broad overview of the academic and professional field of museum studies will be presented alongside an in-depth examination of specific topics of concern to museum professionals. These topics include: the roles of the museum in society; the relationship between the museum and the artist; the ways in which museums engage communities; and how museums are reckoning with issues of diversity, equity and inclusion. The Memorial Art Gallery (where much of this course will be taught) will serve as a case study for many contemporary issues in museum studies.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 440-1 African American Cinema and Its Contents Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Morey Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: AAAS 217-1, AHST 240-1 (P), AHST 440-1, FMST 211-1
Instructors: Sharon Willis
Description: This course will offer a survey of African American film and filmmakers from the early 20th century to the 21st.  Directors we will study include: Oscar Micheaux, Ivan Dixon, Melvin Van Peebles, Gordon Parks, Charles Burnett, Carl Franklin, Dee Rees, Cheryl Dunye, Julie Dash, Kasi Lemmons, Ava DuVernay, Spike Lee, John Singleton, Ryan Coogler, Jordan Peele.  We will also explore the incisive critical and theoretical work African American critics have produced in response to these films and the contexts in which they emerge.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 459-1 Islamic Textiles: Society, Economy, Politics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Morey Room 502 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: AHST 259-1 (P), AHST 459-1
Instructors: Nader Sayadi
Description: This course explores textiles as vital objects in human lives for millennia. It explores a selection of these luxurious textiles and their intersection with social, economic, and political lives in the Islamic world between the ninth to the eighteenth centuries. At the end of the semester, students will have an overall picture of Islamic dynastic history, its broad geographical expansion from Spain to India, and its cultural themes such as political system, social structure, economic sectors, religious rituals, cross-cultural exchanges, diplomatic gifting, royal leisure, and funerary practices. This course invites students to see artifacts as not merely passive objects but active agents in history as well as their everyday lives. It also discusses a few technical aspects of weaving textiles and looks at textiles as three-dimensional objects. Finally, this course will assist students with developing their critical thinking, research, and writing as crucial skills to succeed in their future careers through weekly readings, visual analysis, in-class discussions, and research projects.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 475-1 Paper and Death/Critical Paper Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Morey Room 524 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: AHST 275-1 (P), AHST 475-1
Instructors: Christopher Heuer
Description: This seminar attends to the vast proliferation of printed material in Europe between 1450-1700, to print’s reception, critical history, materiality and use. Participants will focus on the conceptual, social, and economic facets of print through weekly discussions of engravings, etchings, woodcuts, and books. While our attention will be directed towards specific material techniques and technologies (e.g. hand-coloring, reproductive engraving) chiefly in Northern Europe, we will concern ourselves also with the many modalities of print’s reception throughout the world, with mechanical reproductions’ role in shaping (or defying) early modern habits of mind, with the way print inflected notions of authorship, with the manner in which print’s historical agency has been understood, and more urgently, with the new politics of "replicative" media today   Topics to be discussed include: intaglio processes, the collecting, copyright, sale, and marketing of devotional engravings; Protestant-Catholic propaganda and broadsheets; print and identity formation in the Renaissance workshop; natural history, science, cartography, and astrononomy's use of reproduceable images; documentation of the New World; demarcations of high/low culture; the idea of pictures as evidence. We will spend time in the Memorial Art Gallery with works by Dürer, Raimondi, Schedel, Bruegel, Altdorfer, Ortelius, Cock, van Leyden, Ghisi, Callot, Breydenbach, and Rembrandt, as well as with treatises and essays on the early collecting of prints. Readings will include selections from Chartier, Benjamin, Ong, Grafton, McLuhan, Koerner, Latour, de Piles, Warburg, Deleuze, and others.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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AHST 546-1 Arctic Vision Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Morey Room 524 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AHST 346-1 (P), AHST 546-1, EHUM 346-1
Instructors: Christopher Heuer
Description: When Spanish and Portuguese explorers stumbled upon a sunny "America" that was new to them, they encountered balmy wonders – armadillos, cities, and gold. By contrast, when the English crashed into their own unseen continent a century later, they landed in the arctic, and found, to some extent, nothing. Icy, unpopulated, commodity- poor, visually and temporally “abstract,” the Far North - a different kind of terra incognita for the early modern imagination than the sun-drenched Indies, offered no clear stuff to be seen or exploited. With this, this seminar contends, the Arctic quietly yet powerfully challenged older narratives of world- and picture-making. Neither a continent, nor an ocean, nor a meteorological circumstance, the Arctic forced explorers, writers, and early artists from England, the Netherlands, and Germany to grapple with a different kind of “ecology.” Here, there were virtually no exotic animals, teeming forests, or enchanting civilizations to study, exploit, or exterminate - yet. In the frigid North, that is, the idea of description as a kind of accumulative endeavor of “representation” - of exoticism as synonymous with abundance - was thrown into question; the North was unsettling not because of dazzling difference, but because of monotonous sameness. Rather than an Eden, to Renaissance travelers the arctic was something like the moon.
Offered: Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Anthropology
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ANTH 101-1 Being Human: Cultural Anthropology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1150 1240 Goergen Hall Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
31 		Capacity     
45
Instructors: Llerena Searle
Restrictions: Open only to Freshman and Sophomores - AS&E
Description: How do people live, love, work, pray,  parent, and play around the world? This course introduces students to the ways in which cultural anthropologists research human diversity. Students will learn about the different ways people understand racial categories and national identities; how they organize gender dynamics, sexualities, and families; how they generate belief systems and heal sickness; how they structure law, politics, and markets; and how they cope with transitions and upheaval. This course therefore raises questions about cultural diversity, social inequality, justice, and power, in a world shaped by global flows of people, money, media, and technology, and asks students to challenge their assumptions and consider alternative views. Open only to first-year and sophomore students.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ANTH 202-1 Modern Social Theory Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Lattimore Room 441 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Robert Foster
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Close reading and textual analysis of writings that defined key issues of Western social theory. The course considers thinkers such as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud, and their attempts to understand the nature of modern industrial civilization, including the origins and consequences of capitalism. Restriction: Permission of instructor required for first-year students.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ANTH 204-1 Reading Ethnography Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Meliora Room 218 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Llerena Searle
Description: This course is a general inquiry into the practice of ethnography, including fieldwork and writing, carried out through a close reading of materials that investigate the role of the built environment in the production of power and inequality. This course has two aims. First, it will enable students to analyze and evaluate how anthropologists create ethnographic knowledge. Second, it will introduce students to urban anthropology and in particular, to scholarship which examines the politics of urban restructuring (including urban renewal, gentrification, urban violence, deindustrialization, and other topics). Reading ethnographies that document struggles over space in the US and abroad, we will investigate different constellations of power, inequality, and resistance - - and how anthropologists study them. Prerequisite: ANT 101 or permission of instructor.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ANTH 205-1 Theories & Debates: Culture vs. Ontology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Lattimore Room 441 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: ANTH 205-1 (P), EHUM 205-1
Instructors: Thomas Gibson
Description: A survey of anthropological and philosophical debates over how to explain the apparently irrational beliefs of other people in terms of their different cultural perceptions of the same natural world, or in terms of their different experiences of ontologically different worlds. Readings include works by Durkheim, Evans-Pritchard, Levi-Strauss, Latour, Descola, Ingold, Willerslev, and Kohn.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ANTH 215-1 Public Health Anthropology Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ANTH 215-1, PHLT 215W-1 (P)
Instructors: Nancy Chin
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Using a critical lens, this course examines how forms of social organization create good health for some groups and poor health for other groups. Pre-requisite: ANTH 101 or PHLT 101.
Offered: Spring
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ANTH 216-1 Medical Anthropology Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1815 1930 Morey Room 502 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Lois Metcalf
Description: Cultural and social dimensions of health and illness including the political and economic dimensions.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ANTH 224-1 Anthropology of Development Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lattimore Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
38 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: ANTH 224-1 (P), SUST 224-1
Instructors: Daniel Reichman
Description: What is progress? Are universal theories of development possible? This course introduces students to major trends in the anthropological study of international development through case studies from around the world. Topics include: indigenous people and development, debates over cultural property and cultural loss, sustainability, and the role of cultural values in economic life.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ANTH 232-1 Indigenous People's Movement Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Bausch & Lomb Room 269 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ANTH 232-1 (P), EHUM 232-1
Instructors: Thomas Gibson
Description: This course explores the legal, political, and philosophical dimensions of the concept of indigenous people; how it differs from overlapping concepts such as peasantry, race, ethnicity, language, culture, and religion; how its definition varies according to the history of colonialism in different parts of the world; and why this movement gained momentum after the end of the Cold War.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ANTH 233-1 Cultural Politics of Prison Towns Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1400 1640 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: AAAS 200-1, ANTH 233-1 (P), GSWS 233-1, PSCI 225-1, RELC 230-1
Instructors: Kristin Doughty; Joshua Dubler
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Rochester sits in one of the world's most explicitly carceral landscapes, with more than a dozen state prisons within a 90 min drive. This co-taught course is a collaborative ethnographic research project designed to examine how the presence of prisons in towns around Rochester reflects and shapes the political, economic, and cultural lives of those who live in the region. Students will be introduced to methods and practices of ethnography and conduct firsthand research on the cultural politics of prison towns. Through assigned reading, students will learn about the history, sociology, and cultural logics of Rochester and the wider region, and of mass incarceration. What does a prison mean for a person living near one? How does the presence of prisons shape people's notions of justice, citizenship, and punishment? How do these nearby but largely invisible institutions shape the ways that we live in Rochester? Recommended prior courses: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology or Incarceration Nation
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ANTH 240-1 Music, Ethnography & HIV/AIDS Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 540 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: AAAS 222-1, ANTH 240-1, GSWS 241-1, MUSC 236-1 (P), MUSC 436-1, PHLT 227-1
Instructors: Jennifer Kyker
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Addressing the devastating effects of HIV/AIDS in the United States, United Kingdom, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Haiti, and elsewhere, this uniquely interdisciplinary course will incorporate insights from the fields of public health, medical anthropology, and ethnomusicology. Studying the HIV/AIDS epidemic through the lens of musical expression, we will ask how individuals and communities affected by HIV/AIDS have mobilized musical sound in response to the disease. Topics addressed within the class will include musical representations of HIV/AIDS within queer communities; the use of music in public health campaigns to raise awareness about the disease; and the mobilization of musical performance within grassroots support groups for individuals affected by HIV/AIDS.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ANTH 243-1 Energy and Power Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Meliora Room 218 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: AAAS 221-1, ANTH 243-1 (P), EHUM 243-1, GSWS 236-1
Instructors: Kristin Doughty
Description: Does it matter where our power comes from? Why or how and to whom? This course uses anthropological case studies of different kinds of energy sources (fossil fuels, nuclear, water, solar, wind) and different kinds of electrification (centralized grids versus micro-grids) around the world to think about the relationship between energy, environments, power, and culture with a specific focus on intersectional gender and sexuality. How do energy practices and cultural norms of racialized gender shape each other in various places around the world, and to what effects? What might empirical attention to how people talk about and use energy help us to understand about the energy transitions and climate crises of the 21st century?
Offered: Fall Spring
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ANTH 251-1 Islamic Modernities in Africa Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Frederick Douglass Room 302 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
19
Co-Located: ANTH 251-1, RELC 247-1 (P)
Instructors: John Thibdeau
Description: This course will discuss the encounters of Islam and modernity in African contexts through a combination of historical, textual, and ethnographic studies based in North, East, and West Africa. One of the primary aims of this course is to situate Africa not merely as a site for the reception of Islam and European modernity, but as an integral node in the development of Islamic and Western intellectual, political, and social histories. In addition, we will interrogate the Eurocentric ideas of modernity through its political, epistemological, ethical, technological, and gendered dimensions while also examining the emergence of Islamic modernities, i.e., ways of being Muslim and modern that grew out of encounters on the African continent. In the process, we will engage with issues of colonialism and the formation of nation-states and how those processes gave rise to contemporary geopolitical concerns on the continent. Finally, this course will consider the transnational aspects of Islam in African contexts through the intersecting histories of Islam in America and Africa engendered through the slave trade and transatlantic flows of people and knowledge, as well as African Muslim diasporas in Europe.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ANTH 257-1 Contemporary Chinese Society Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Morey Room 501 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
26 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ANTH 257-1 (P), ANTH 457-1
Instructors: John Osburg
Description: This course adopts an anthropological approach towards understanding the dramatic socio-cultural transformations that have followed in the wake of China’s post-Mao economic reforms. What happens when a society officially committed to economic and gender equality witnesses the rise of stark social divisions? Beginning with an historical overview of the key features of the Maoist and post-Mao periods, we will move on to examine such issues as the creation of a market economy, the rise of new social classes, rural to urban migration, changing ideologies of gender and sexuality, new attitudes towards education and work, transformations in family life, religious revival and conversion, and the influences of global popular culture and mass consumption, with an eye towards identifying both continuities and departures from the Maoist era. Throughout our discussions we will consider the implications of these changes for China’s political, social, and economic futures.
Offered: Fall Spring
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ANTH 262-1 Spring Leaf Seminar Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 900 1040 Lattimore Room 441 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Kathryn Mariner
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Spring Leaf seminar by instructor permission only.
Offered: Spring
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ANTH 265-1 Global Health Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Gavett Hall Room 312 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ANTH 265-1, PHLT 265W-1 (P)
Instructors: Nancy Chin
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course uses social theories to frame current issues in global health. Readings include critiques of development and ethnographic methods. Pre-requisite: PHLT 101 or ANTH 101.
Offered: Spring
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ANTH 296-1 Art History and Ethnoarchaeology of West Africa Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 413 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AHST 232-1, ANTH 296-1, ATHS 212-1 (P), HIST 220-1
Instructors: William Gblerkpor
Description: What do we know about the contemporary and past cultures and societies of West Africa? How has the nature and role of art and visual cultures of West Africa changed over time? And how has our knowledge about West Africa’s past and contemporary societies and cultures been produced and disseminated? This course is made up of two parts.  The first explores historic and contemporary societies and cultures of West Africa, focusing on the inception and development of complex societies of the sub-region between 2500 B.C. to the present. The second part of the course explores the character and meaning of contemporary and historic art works and artifacts of West Africa.
Offered: Spring
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ANTH 315-1 Advanced Topics: Borders and Boundaries Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Lattimore Room 441 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Daniel Reichman
Description: Why do borders exist? How do they relate to other forms of social boundaries that pre-date the modern nation-state? Are borders likely to persist or disappear in the future?  This class will investigate the  anthropology of borders as a way to understand processes of social inclusion and exclusion in societies around the world.

Prerequisite: ANTH 200
Offered: Fall Spring
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ANTH 390-1 Supervised Teaching ANT 101 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Llerena Searle
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: For ANT 101, Cultural Anthropology. By application only. The TA program requires students to work in teams and to lead group discussion.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ANTH 405-1 Theories & Debates: Culture vs. Ontology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Thomas Gibson
Description: A survey of anthropological and philosophical debates over how to explain the apparently irrational beliefs of other people in terms of their different cultural perceptions of the same natural world, or in terms of their different experiences of ontologically different worlds. Readings include works by Durkheim, Evans-Pritchard, Levi-Strauss, Latour, Descola, Ingold, Willerslev, and Kohn.
Offered: Fall Spring
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ANTH 432-1 Indigenous People's Movement Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Thomas Gibson
Description: This course explores the legal, political, and philosophical dimensions of the concept of indigenous people; how it differs from overlapping concepts such as peasantry, race, ethnicity, language, culture, and religion; how its definition varies according to the history of colonialism in different parts of the world; and why this movement gained momentum after the end of the Cold War.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ANTH 433-1 Cultural Politics of Prison Towns Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Kristin Doughty; Joshua Dubler
Description: Rochester sits in one of the world's most explicitly carceral landscapes, with more than a dozen state prisons within a 90 min drive. This co-taught course is a collaborative ethnographic research project designed to examine how the presence of prisons in towns around Rochester reflects and shapes the political, economic, and cultural lives of those who live in the region. Students will be introduced to methods and practices of ethnography and conduct firsthand research on the cultural politics of prison towns. Through assigned reading, students will learn about the history, sociology, and cultural logics of Rochester and the wider region, and of mass incarceration. What does a prison mean for a person living near one? How does the presence of prisons shape people's notions of justice, citizenship, and punishment? How do these nearby but largely invisible institutions shape the ways that we live in Rochester? Recommended prior courses: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology or Incarceration Nation
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ANTH 457-1 Contemporary Chinese Society Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Morey Room 501 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
26 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ANTH 257-1 (P), ANTH 457-1
Instructors: John Osburg
Description: This course adopts an anthropological approach towards understanding the dramatic socio-cultural transformations that have followed in the wake of China’s post-Mao economic reforms. What happens when a society officially committed to economic and gender equality witnesses the rise of stark social divisions? Beginning with an historical overview of the key features of the Maoist and post-Mao periods, we will move on to examine such issues as the creation of a market economy, the rise of new social classes, rural to urban migration, changing ideologies of gender and sexuality, new attitudes towards education and work, transformations in family life, religious revival and conversion, and the influences of global popular culture and mass consumption, with an eye towards identifying both continuities and departures from the Maoist era. Throughout our discussions we will consider the implications of these changes for China’s political, social, and economic futures.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Religion & Classics - Arabic
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ARBC 102-1 Elementary Arabic II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Rush Rhees Library Room 442 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Afrah Alfatli
Description: A continuation of Arabic 101 from the Fall semester. Introduction of writing complex sentences and reading paragraphs. In addition, more vocabulary building, and longer conversational sessions. This course will require basic fundamentals of the Arabic language such as reading simple sentences and engaging in a simple conversation. This course is designed to help students gain more knowledge in their vocabularies, grammar, and oral skills.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ARBC 104-1 Intermediate Arabic II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Meliora Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Afrah Alfatli
Description: A continuation of Arabic 103. This course is designed to enable students to engage in an intermediate conversation with a native Arabic speaker in different scenarios. The course will cover all the materials which can help a student with writing and reading as a professional Arabic speaker.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ARBC 206-1 Adv Arabic Prose Sem III Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Meliora Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Afrah Alfatli
Description: The course is designed to enable students to attain solid advanced level proficiency on the reading, writing and speaking skills. The readings for the class are chosen from modern Arabic in a variety of fields and subjects.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering American Sign Language
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ASLA 101-1 Beginning Amer Sign Lang I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MTR 1650 1740 Lattimore Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Dmitriy Kiselgof
Description: An introductory course in American Sign Language as developed and used by the Deaf community in most areas of North America. Everyday communication is the centerpiece of every lesson. Topics revolve around sharing information about our environment and us. Grammar is introduced in context, with an emphasis on developing question and answer skills. You learn conversational strategies to help you maintain a conversation. Students will also be exposed to native signers modeling appropriate language and cultural behaviors in various situations. Interaction activities allow you to rehearse what youve learned.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ASLA 101-2 Beginning Amer Sign Lang I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MTR 1815 1905 Lattimore Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Dmitriy Kiselgof
Description: An introductory course in American Sign Language as developed and used by the Deaf community in most areas of North America. Everyday communication is the centerpiece of every lesson. Topics revolve around sharing information about our environment and us. Grammar is introduced in context, with an emphasis on developing question and answer skills. You learn conversational strategies to help you maintain a conversation. Students will also be exposed to native signers modeling appropriate language and cultural behaviors in various situations. Interaction activities allow you to rehearse what youve learned.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ASLA 101-3 Beginning Amer Sign Lang I Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 900 950 Lattimore Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Norma Tourangeau
Description: An introductory course in American Sign Language as developed and used by the Deaf community in most areas of North America. Everyday communication is the centerpiece of every lesson. Topics revolve around sharing information about our environment and us. Grammar is introduced in context, with an emphasis on developing question and answer skills. You learn conversational strategies to help you maintain a conversation. Students will also be exposed to native signers modeling appropriate language and cultural behaviors in various situations. Interaction activities allow you to rehearse what youve learned.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ASLA 101-4 Beginning Amer Sign Lang I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1400 1450 Lattimore Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Kimberly Brandt
Description: An introductory course in American Sign Language as developed and used by the Deaf community in most areas of North America. Everyday communication is the centerpiece of every lesson. Topics revolve around sharing information about our environment and us. Grammar is introduced in context, with an emphasis on developing question and answer skills. You learn conversational strategies to help you maintain a conversation. Students will also be exposed to native signers modeling appropriate language and cultural behaviors in various situations. Interaction activities allow you to rehearse what youve learned.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ASLA 101-5 Beginning Amer Sign Lang I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 800 850 Lattimore Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Kimberly Brandt
Description: An introductory course in American Sign Language as developed and used by the Deaf community in most areas of North America. Everyday communication is the centerpiece of every lesson. Topics revolve around sharing information about our environment and us. Grammar is introduced in context, with an emphasis on developing question and answer skills. You learn conversational strategies to help you maintain a conversation. Students will also be exposed to native signers modeling appropriate language and cultural behaviors in various situations. Interaction activities allow you to rehearse what youve learned.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ASLA 102-1 Beginning Amer Sign Lang II Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1025 1115 Lattimore Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Michael Balint
Description: A continuation course in American Sign Language as developed and used by the Deaf community in most areas of North America. Everyday communication is the centerpiece of every lesson with a focus on expressing the language. Topics revolve around sharing information about our environment and us. Grammar is introduced in context, with an emphasis on developing question and answer skills. You learn conversational strategies to help you maintain a conversation. Students will also be exposed to Deaf Culture/history and native signers modeling appropriate language and cultural behaviors in various situations. Interaction activities allow you to rehearse what youve learned. Experience with the local Deaf community is required.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ASLA 102-2 Beginning Amer Sign Lang II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1135 1225 Lattimore Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Lisa DeWindt-Sommer
Description: A continuation course in American Sign Language as developed and used by the Deaf community in most areas of North America. Everyday communication is the centerpiece of every lesson with a focus on expressing the language. Topics revolve around sharing information about our environment and us. Grammar is introduced in context, with an emphasis on developing question and answer skills. You learn conversational strategies to help you maintain a conversation. Students will also be exposed to Deaf Culture/history and native signers modeling appropriate language and cultural behaviors in various situations. Interaction activities allow you to rehearse what youve learned. Experience with the local Deaf community is required. Instruction permission
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ASLA 102-3 Beginning Amer Sign Lang II Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Lechase Room 181 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Pamela Nickels
Description: A continuation course in American Sign Language as developed and used by the Deaf community in most areas of North America. Everyday communication is the centerpiece of every lesson with a focus on expressing the language. Topics revolve around sharing information about our environment and us. Grammar is introduced in context, with an emphasis on developing question and answer skills. You learn conversational strategies to help you maintain a conversation. Students will also be exposed to Deaf Culture/history and native signers modeling appropriate language and cultural behaviors in various situations. Interaction activities allow you to rehearse what youve learned. Experience with the local Deaf community is required.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ASLA 102-4 Beginning Amer Sign Lang II Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1530 1645 Lattimore Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Guillaume Chastel
Description:

A continuation course in American Sign Language as developed and used by the Deaf community in most areas of North America. Everyday communication is the centerpiece of every lesson with a focus on expressing the language. Topics revolve around sharing information about our environment and us. Grammar is introduced in context, with an emphasis on developing question and answer skills. You learn conversational strategies to help you maintain a conversation. Students will also be exposed to Deaf Culture/history and native signers modeling appropriate language and cultural behaviors in various situations. Interaction activities allow you to rehearse what you've learned. Experience with the local Deaf community is required.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ASLA 102-5 Beginning Amer Sign Lang II Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Lechase Room 121 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Michael Balint
Description:

A continuation course in American Sign Language as developed and used by the Deaf community in most areas of North America. Everyday communication is the centerpiece of every lesson with a focus on expressing the language. Topics revolve around sharing information about our environment and us. Grammar is introduced in context, with an emphasis on developing question and answer skills. You learn conversational strategies to help you maintain a conversation. Students will also be exposed to Deaf Culture/history and native signers modeling appropriate language and cultural behaviors in various situations. Interaction activities allow you to rehearse what you've learned. Experience with the local Deaf community is required.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ASLA 102-6 Beginning Amer Sign Lang II Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lechase Room 121 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Michael Balint
Description:

A continuation course in American Sign Language as developed and used by the Deaf community in most areas of North America. Everyday communication is the centerpiece of every lesson with a focus on expressing the language. Topics revolve around sharing information about our environment and us. Grammar is introduced in context, with an emphasis on developing question and answer skills. You learn conversational strategies to help you maintain a conversation. Students will also be exposed to Deaf Culture/history and native signers modeling appropriate language and cultural behaviors in various situations. Interaction activities allow you to rehearse what you've learned. Experience with the local Deaf community is required.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ASLA 105-1 Intermed Americn Sign Lang I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Lechase Room 143 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Michael Balint
Description: The third in a sequence of courses, this course focuses on further development of conversational skills in ASL. Students will acquire and expand different conversational strategies and increase ASL vocabulary. Grammatical principles and functions will be emphasized. Appropriate cultural behaviors and conversational regulators in ASL will continue to be an important part of class. Information on Deaf Culture/history will be expanded. Experience with the local Deaf community is required.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ASLA 105-2 Intermed Americn Sign Lang I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lechase Room 143 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Michael Balint
Description: The third in a sequence of courses, this course focuses on further development of conversational skills in ASL. Students will acquire and expand different conversational strategies and increase ASL vocabulary. Grammatical principles and functions will be emphasized. Appropriate cultural behaviors and conversational regulators in ASL will continue to be an important part of class. Information on Deaf Culture/history will be expanded. Experience with the local Deaf community is required.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ASLA 105-3 Intermed Americn Sign Lang I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Lechase Room 143 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Michael Balint
Description: The third in a sequence of courses, this course focuses on further development of conversational skills in ASL. Students will acquire and expand different conversational strategies and increase ASL vocabulary. Grammatical principles and functions will be emphasized. Appropriate cultural behaviors and conversational regulators in ASL will continue to be an important part of class. Information on Deaf Culture/history will be expanded. Experience with the local Deaf community is required.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ASLA 106-1 Intermediate ASL II Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lechase Room 124 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
11
Instructors: Guillaume Chastel
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The fourth in a sequence of courses, this course focuses on further development of conversational and narrative skills in ASL. Students will learn and expand different conversational strategies and increase ASL vocabulary. An introduction to analysis of grammatical principles and functions will be included. Appropriate cultural behaviors and conversational regulators in ASL will continue to be an important part of class. Experience with the local Deaf community is required. NOTE: MUST obtain permission code from ASL Program advisor to register for this course. ASLA Majors & Minors will be permitted to register first. Prerequisites: ASLA 105 in the immediately preceding semester or permission of the instructor. B or better in ASLA 105
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ASLA 106-2 Intermediate ASL II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Lechase Room 121 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Guillaume Chastel
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The fourth in a sequence of courses, this course focuses on further development of conversational and narrative skills in ASL. Students will learn and expand different conversational strategies and increase ASL vocabulary. An introduction to analysis of grammatical principles and functions will be included. Appropriate cultural behaviors and conversational regulators in ASL will continue to be an important part of class. Experience with the local Deaf community is required. NOTE: MUST obtain permission code from ASL Program advisor to register for this course. ASL Majors & Minors will be permitted to register first.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ASLA 110-1 Compar Study of French Sign Lang Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Lattimore Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Guillaume Chastel
Description:

An introductory course in French Sign Language (LSF) as developed and used by the Deaf community in France. Everyday communication is the centerpiece of every lesson. Topics revolve around sharing information about our environment and us. Grammar is introduced in context, with an emphasis on developing question and answer skills. You learn conversational strategies to help you maintain a conversation. Interaction activities allow you to rehearse what you've learned. Cultural behaviors of the Deaf Community in France will be introduced in various and appropriate situations.
Offered: Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ASLA 200-1 Sign Language Structure Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lechase Room 160 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: ASLA 200-1 (P), BCSC 264-1, BCSC 564-1, LING 230-1, LING 430-1
Instructors: Norma Tourangeau
Description: An examination of signed languages and the cognitive constraints that shape them, through a detailed consideration of the structure of American Sign Language and other natural signed languages of the world. Includes training in sign language notation and analysis. Prerequisites: ASL 106 in the immediately preceding semester or permission of the instructor. B or better in ASL 106.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ASLA 205-1 Art of Translation Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Lechase Room 161 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Norma Tourangeau
Description:

This course will explore the meaning of translation, practice various translation methods, and analyze both written English and recorded ASL texts, with a focus on the analysis of English texts and the development of ASL translations. Extensive discussion of various types of texts and the factors that must be considered when preparing an accurate ASL or English translation will contribute to students translation work. Satisfies the upper level writing requirement. Prerequisites: ASL 106 and either ASL ASL 113, 201 or 202 in the immediately preceding semester, or permission of the instructor. B or better in ASL 106.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ASLA 209-1 Teaching ASL as a 2nd Lang Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Lechase Room 124 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
11
Instructors: Guillaume Chastel
Description:

This course is designed to provide hands-on experience in teaching different subjects in ASL and evaluating student competencies in ASL and to develop an understanding of current methods and theories regarding ASL as the classroom language. Students learn about the history of teaching and resources to support such efforts. Students are provided opportunities to practice basic teaching techniques and select appropriate materials to incorporate relevant cultural and grammatical features in their lessons. The course follows a seminar format and is highly interactive in nature to encourage discussions based on in-class lectures, assigned readings, and student teaching projects. Prerequisites: ASLA 106 in the immediately preceding semester or permission of the instructor. B or better in ASLA 106.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ASLA 250-1 Sociolinguistics of Deaf Comnty Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lattimore Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Norma Tourangeau
Description:

A discussion and analysis of variation in ASL and its relation to variables of social situation and identity in American Deaf communities. Topics include theoretical and methodological concepts in sociolinguistics, levels of grammatical variation, and social variables such as region, identity, register and attitude. Research includes the language behavior of Deaf signers, children of deaf adults, third culture groups and the role of hearing L2 signers in the Deaf community. Prerequisites: ASLA 106 in the immediately preceding semester or permission of the instructor. B or better in ASLA 106.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Audio Music Engineering
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
AME 141-1 Fundmntls. of Digital Audio Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Computer Studies Room 601 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
32 		Capacity     
40
Instructors: Sarah Smith
Description: This course covers the fundamentals of manipulating and encoding sound in a digital format. Mathematical representations of digital signals are introduced and the effects of simple filters are analyzed in the context of audio. This course further provides students with an introduction to programming in Matlab through a series of assignments exploring sound synthesis algorithms and audio effects processing.    
Offered: Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
AME 191-1 Art and Tech of Recording Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Gavett Hall Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: AME 191-1 (P), DMST 121-1, MUSC 191-1
Instructors: Stephen Roessner
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course covers the fundamentals in becoming an audio engineer. Topics covered include: Acoustics, Psychoacoustics, Microphones, Signal Processing, Tape Recording, Digital Audio Theory, Signal Flow, Studio Etiquette, Digital Audio Workstations, Music Business, Recording Audio, and Mixing Audio. You do not need any previous experience in recording, however some familiarity with music and how it is created is needed.

There are four group recording projects that make up the bulk of the course, each with their own guidelines and challenges. This course requires considerable time to be spent on projects outside of the lecture and lab times. The labs are required to take this course.

First-year non-AME Major students are ineligible to take this course.

Prerequisites: None

INSTRUCTOR PERMISSION ONLY.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
AME 192-1 Listening and Audio Prod Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Gavett Hall Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: AME 192-1 (P), DMST 122-1, MUSC 192-1
Instructors: Stephen Roessner
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course builds on knowledge gained in AME191. Fundamental topics covered include Advanced Mixing and Mastering Techniques, Drum Replacement, Impulse Responses and Reverb, Advanced Concepts of Signal Processing, Analog Tape Recording, Music Business Ethics and Taxes, and Hybrid Analog/Digital Mixing Techniques.

Emphasis is on the development of critical listening skills through ear training exercises and active listening assignments. These drills will develop your ability to hear width and depth in audio, mixing techniques in various musical genres, specific instruments used in a recording, and recognition of various effects including reverb, delay, compression, phasing and distortion.

There are four group recording projects that make up the bulk of the course, each with their own guidelines and challenges. This course requires considerable time to be spent on projects outside of the lecture and lab times. The labs are required to take this course.

Prerequisites: AME 191

INSTRUCTOR PERMISSION ONLY.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
AME 193-1 Sound Design Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Computer Studies Room 616 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
35 		Capacity     
40
Instructors: Robert LaVaque
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The course is intended to provide students a basic understanding of SOUND DESIGN and working with sound for picture. The emphasis is on demonstrations and hands-on experience to enable students to gain a practical knowledge of sound and music production using computers.

Topics include synthesizers & samplers; recording and editing with Pro Tools and Logic Pro; sound effect creation; foley & automatic dialog replacement; basic soundtrack composition; and working to picture. Many techniques are explored, employing software and hardware-based sound creation tools throughout the course. Students will complete a major sound design project at the conclusion of the course.

Instructor’s permission required: Please provide your class year and major/minor.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
AME 194-1 Audio for Visual Media Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1815 1930 Computer Studies Room 616 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: AME 194-1 (P), AME 461-1, MUSC 194-1
Instructors: Robert LaVaque
Description: This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of the process and the skills for creating MUSIC for picture. The course emphasizes hands-on experience where students gain practical knowledge in scoring to picture using provided DAWs and Virtual Instruments. It features guest lectures by professional composers in the fields of TV, Film, Advertising, Gaming, and Animation, providing real world style assignments along with individual feedback for each student.

Topics also include MIDI, creating drumbeats, music analysis and emulation, soft synthesizers, samplers, virtual instruments, recording and editing with Logic Pro, and working to picture. Students will complete numerous projects throughout the course.

Prerequisites: AME 193, or a solid working knowledge of either Pro Tools or Logic Pro. Strong musical ability, basic keyboard proficiency.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
AME 196-1 Interactive Computer Music Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Computer Studies Room 616 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
40
Instructors: Ming Lun Lee
Description: In this course, students will explore digital audio synthesis and real-time interactive technologies by learning ChucK, a primary music programming language for most of the laptop orchestras in the world. Students will be able to design interactive computer music and manipulate sound with MIDI controllers, laptops, mobile devices, joysticks, mice, Leap Motion controllers, and Wiimotes by sending MIDI or Open Sound Control (OSC) messages. We will also explore algorithmic composition, which is the technique of using algorithms to generate music. Each student is required to build a drum machine piece for the midterm project. At the end of the semester, we will have a Sonic Showcase presenting interactive surround-sound pieces designed by our students.
Offered: Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
AME 197-1 Audio for Gaming Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Computer Studies Room 616 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: AME 197-1 (P), ECE 473-1
Instructors: Robert LaVaque
Description: The course is intended to provide students a basic understanding of creating audio for gaming. The emphasis is on demonstrations and hands-on experience to enable students to gain a practical knowledge of the integration of sound and music into video games using middleware. Students will primarily work with Wwise, Reaper, Pro Tools, and Logic Pro X. The course will also feature guest lectures by industry leading professionals, who will share their experience and insights. For a final project, students will create their own music and sound for a provided game.

Topics will include soundtrack composition for interactive; Advanced sound effect creation, foley, Dialog recording and editing, and working within a game environment. Supplementary software discussed will include FMod, Unreal, and Nuendo.

Prerequisite: AME 193 & 194, or a working knowledge of either Pro Tools, Logic Pro, or Reaper.
Offered: Fall
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
AME 198-1 Designing the Living Recording Studio Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1940 2055 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Seth Paris
Description: This course covers the design, planning, and implementation of recording studios, ranging in size from the small home studio to large format commercial studios. A successful recording studio is a living entity composed of numerous interconnected systems that must function together in harmony to facilitate both the creative process and a viable business entity. Each system of the living studio will be discussed including: recording equipment and amplifiers, digital and analog recorders, loudspeaker systems, wiring, computer infrastructure, digital asset management, construction, acoustic planning and treatment, furnishings, staffing, maintenance and budgeting. The course will also include guest speakers and conversations with leading experts from studios in NYC and abroad to share real world expertise and provide virtual studio tours of successful facilities. Each student is required to complete a proposal for a large format commercial studio prepared for a client to be presented as their final project.

ON-LINE ONLY COURSE
Offered: Spring
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AME 233-1 Musical Acoustics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Computer Studies Room 601 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: AME 233-1 (P), ECE 233-1, ECE 433-1, PHYS 233-1, TEE 433-1
Instructors: Michael Heilemann
Description: Engineering aspects of acoustics. Review of oscillators, vibratory motion, the acoustic wave equation, reflection, transmission and absorption of sound, radiation and diffraction of acoustic waves. Resonators, hearing and speech, architectural and environmental acoustics. Prerequisites:

Linear algebra and Differential Equations (MTH 165), and Physics (PHY 121) or equivalents.
Offered: Spring
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AME 262-1 Audio Software Design Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Computer Studies Room 616 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
50
Co-Located: AME 262-1 (P), ECE 475-1, TEE 475-1
Instructors: Ming Lun Lee
Description: In this course, students will develop skills for designing audio/music applications and creating computer music in C and Max. We will begin with the history of computer music, a survey of audio programming languages, and a review of C. Libsndfile, a C library for reading and writing sound files, will be used to explore topics in sound synthesis, analysis, and digital signal processing. Students will use PortAudio, a C library for real-time audio input/output, to design DSP applications. Max is a visual programming language for interactive audio/music and multimedia. Students are required to watch pre-recorded lectures to learn Max and attend recitations for reviews. They will also practice their programming techniques through a series of programming assignments, a midterm drum machine project in Max, and a final research/design project.  

Prerequisite: ECE114 or instructor permission
Offered: Fall
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AME 272-1 Audio Dig Signal Processing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Computer Studies Room 601 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
28 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: AME 272-1 (P), ECE 272-1, ECE 472-1, TEE 472-1
Instructors: Sarah Smith
Description: This course is a survey of audio digital signal processing fundamentals and applications. Topics include sampling and quantization, analog to digital converters, time and frequency domains, spectral analysis, vocoding, digital filters, audio effects, music audio analysis and synthesis, and other advanced topics in audio signal processing. Implementation of algorithms using Matlab and on dedicated DSP platforms is emphasized.
Offered: Spring
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AME 292-1 Acoustics Portfolio Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 940 1055 Computer Studies Room 523 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
28
Instructors: Mark Bocko
Description: This is a follow on course to AME233, Musical Acoustics. In this course students will complete a major project in acoustics, such as the acoustical characterization of an architectural space, design or re-design of an architectural or studio space, development of acoustical computer simulation tools, design or characterization of acoustic musical instruments, design and fabrication of loudspeakers, design and implementation of a live sound or sound reinforcement system, or any other project in acoustics with the agreement of the instructor. Weekly meetings and progress reports are required.
Offered: Fall Spring
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AME 293-1 Adv. Audio Amplifier Design Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 800 930 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
24
Co-Located: AME 293-1 (P), ECE 480-1
Instructors: Daniel Phinney
Description: Audio amplification concepts and design techniques focused on the use of vacuum tubes.  Will cover some concepts related to MOSFET amplifiers as well.  A mixture of lab based projects and LTSpice simulation.  Shall cover concepts related to impedance matching, preamps, class A and class AB power amplifiers, power supplies and grounding techniques
Offered: Fall Spring
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AME 295-1 Audio Electronics Portfolio Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 900 1015 Hopeman Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
24
Instructors: Daniel Phinney
Description: This is a follow on course to AME 223, Audio Electronics. In this course students will complete a major design/build project in the area of audio electronics. Examples include a solid state or tube-based instrument amplifier, audio power amplifier, audio effects processor, audio analog/digital interface or any other audio electronic project with the agreement of the instructor. Weekly meetings and progress reports are required.
Offered: Fall Spring
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AME 387-1 Senior Design Project II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1815 2055 Computer Studies Room 601 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
45
Instructors: Michael Heilemann
Description: Senior Design Project in Audio and Music Engineering. In the second semester of the year-long AME Senior Project course students will complete their projects including final system level designs, detailed sub-system designs, prototype building, testing, evaluation and final presentation to the customer.
Offered: Spring
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AME 460-1 Digital Programs & Prog I Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Computer Studies Room 616 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
50
Instructors: Robert LaVaque
Description: The course is intended to provide students a basic understanding of sound design, and working with sound for picture. The emphasis is on demonstrations and hands-on experience to enable students to gain a practical knowledge of sound and music production using computers. Topics include MIDI; synthesizers & samplers; recording and editing with Pro Tools and Logic Pro X; sound effect creation; foley & automatic dialog replacement; basic soundtrack composition; and working to picture. Many techniques are explored employing software and hardware based sound creation tools throughout the course. ESM STUDENTS ONLY
Offered: Fall Spring
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AME 461-1 Digital Program. and Prog II Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1815 1930 Computer Studies Room 616 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AME 194-1 (P), AME 461-1, MUSC 194-1
Instructors: Robert LaVaque
Description: This course is intended to provide students with a basic understanding of the process and the skills for creating music for picture. The course emphasizes hands-on experience where students gain practical skills in scoring to picture using computers and it features guest lectures by industry leading professionals, who will share their insights on creating music for TV Shows, Advertising, Movies, Gaming, Animation, and Industrial Work. Topics also include soft synthesizers, samplers and virtual instruments; recording and editing with Pro Tools and Logic; and sound design on audio workstations. Students will complete a number of projects throughout the course. ESM STUDENTS ONLY
Offered: Fall Spring
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AME 491-1 Independent Study: Vocal Mixing Techniques Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
1
Instructors: Robert LaVaque
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering American Studies
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
AMST 200-1 The Idea of America Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Lechase Room 121 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AAAS 211-1, AMST 200-1 (P), ENGL 242-2, ENGL 429-1, HIST 264-1
Instructors: John Michael
Description: What is America? A country? A continent? A political ideal? A culture? This course traces the development of ideas about America, from its historical beginnings to our own time, from European fantasies about the New World and its possibilities to the experiences of settlers and citizens facing its realities. We will explore the competing and even contending narratives of America in a wide variety of cultural documents, from orations, sermons and political tracts to novels, poems, photographs, and films. The course is open to all interested students and required for all American Studies majors.
Offered: Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Astronomy
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ASTR 104-01 Solar System Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Bausch & Lomb Room 106 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
31 		Capacity     
60
Instructors: Adam Frank
Description: This course, for non-science majors, focuses on the solar system, planets orbiting other stars and the possibility that life may exist on some of those worlds.  Topics include the history and basic physics of our understanding of the solar system, the origin of planetary systems like the solar system, the nature of the 8 planets and other bodies in our solar system, how we detect planets orbiting other stars and the origin and possibilities for life on planets. The class will also include readings and discussion of climate change as a planetary phenomenon. Calculus is not needed for the course. The class will also include the use of a video game intended to help teach basic concepts in solar system science.
Offered: Spring
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ASTR 142-01 Elementary Astrophysics (Honors) Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Bausch & Lomb Room 203H 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Kelly Douglass
Description: Application of the physics and math techniques learned in the introductory course sequences, to the study of celestial objects outside the Solar system. We discuss stars and their formation from interstellar matter, the structure of galaxies and their distribution in the Universe, and the origins and large-scale structure of the Universe: all topics that are developed much further in the AST 200-level courses. The course also includes a night-time observing project, based upon student use of professional-style telescopes and CCD cameras. Registration of recitation is required at the time of course registration. Typical textbook: Marck Kutner, 'Astronomy' A Physical Perspective,' second edition.

Prerequisites: PHY 141-143 or PHY 121- 123 (PHY 123 may be taken concurrently); MTH 161-165 or MTH 171-174 (MTH 174 may be taken concurrently), or permission of instructor; AST 111 recommended but not required
Offered: Spring
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ASTR 243-01 Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Bausch & Lomb Room 270 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Eric Blackman
Description: An Introduction to Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics. This class explores topics in astrophysics while giving a solid foundation in the fundamentals of fluid mechanics. We introduce the theory of the motion of gases and fluids necessary to understand and explore a wide range of astronomical phenomena including stellar structure, supernovae blast waves and accretion discs. We will cover ideal fluid mechanics, Eulerian and Lagrangian views, conservations laws, hydrostatic equilibrium, self-similar flows, blast waves, spherical accretion and wind flows, astrophysics shocks, viscous flows, vorticity, accretion disks, atmospheric waves, hydrodynamic instabilities, and radiative heating and cooling. We will introduce finite difference numerical techniques so that dynamics in 1 dimension can be explored numerically. At the end of the term we will explore topics of recent interest such as gamma ray bursts, astrophysical turbulence or winds from exoplanets.

Prerequisites: PHY 237 (may be taken concurrently); familiarity with the subject matter of AST 142 and/or AST 111 is advised
Offered: Spring
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ASTR 244W-01 Observational Astronomy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Bausch & Lomb Room 203H 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ASTR 244W-01 (P), ASTR 444-01
Instructors: Kelly Douglass
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Offered: Spring
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ASTR 393-01 Senior Project Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Description: Completion of an independent research project under the direction of a faculty member of the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ASTR 393W-01 Senior Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
1
Instructors: Miki Nakajima
Description: Completion of an independent research project under the direction of a faculty member of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. This course includes a writing component and can be used to satisfy part of the upper-level writing requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ASTR 393W-02 Senior Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Dan Watson
Description: Completion of an independent research project under the direction of a faculty member of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. This course includes a writing component and can be used to satisfy part of the upper-level writing requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ASTR 393W-03 Senior Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Regina Demina
Description: Completion of an independent research project under the direction of a faculty member of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. This course includes a writing component and can be used to satisfy part of the upper-level writing requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ASTR 393W-04 Senior Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Kelly Douglass
Description: Completion of an independent research project under the direction of a faculty member of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. This course includes a writing component and can be used to satisfy part of the upper-level writing requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ASTR 393W-05 Senior Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Segev BenZvi
Description: Completion of an independent research project under the direction of a faculty member of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. This course includes a writing component and can be used to satisfy part of the upper-level writing requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ASTR 444-01 Observational Astronomy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Bausch & Lomb Room 203H 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ASTR 244W-01 (P), ASTR 444-01
Instructors: Kelly Douglass
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Offered: Spring
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ASTR 453-01 Stellar Structure and Atmospheres Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Bausch & Lomb Room 375 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Petros Tzeferacos
Description: A first course on stellar interiors and atmospheres in which approximately 50 percent of a semester is devoted to each. Stellar Interiors topics cover hydrostatic equilibrium, the Virial theorem, energy generation and transport, overview of stellar evolution, PMS Evolution, main sequence evolution, late evolution, evolution in close binary systems, stellar modelling (in part), the approach to real models. Stellar Atmospheres topics cover basic Radiative Transphere, transport Equation, Eddington-Barbier approximation, line and continuum transfer in LTE, radiative transfer in static Plane-Parallel stars. exponential integrals and the Schwarzshild-Milne equations, Lambda, Phi and Chi operators, various Eddington approximations, Atmospheres of Static Plane-Parallel Stars, pressure stratification, temperature stratification, radiative equilibrium, Gray-atmosphere approximation, spectra from static Plane-Parallel stars. line broadening mechanisms, spectral line formation. See A450 & A553 for full-fledged courses.
Offered: Fall Spring
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ASTR 551-01 The Interstellar Medium Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Bausch & Lomb Room 203H 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Dan Watson
Description: In this course we study the Galactic interstellar medium, the processes of star formation, and the interaction of stars with their birthplaces. We will heavily emphasize phenomenology and modelling of observations – rather than observing techniques and fluid-mechanical theory. The main effort of each student will be exerted in a term project, in which they will learn to use standard software packages to model sets of observations of interstellar gaseous objects. The class is aimed at first- and second-year graduate students in physics and astronomy.
Offered: Fall Spring
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ASTR 595A-1 PhD Research in Absentia Spring 2023 12.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Description: Special topics in astronomy or astrophysics
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Archeology Tech & Hist Structure
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ATHS 102-1 Ritual and Religion in Archaeological Perspective Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Lechase Room 181 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: ATHS 102-1, RELC 186-1 (P)
Instructors: Stefanie Bautista San Miguel
Description: “Things derive their importance from an immaterial quality, but their materiality indeed matters” (Karlström 2009:186). How does one study the immaterial based on materials from a time long past? This course will introduce students to the topic of religion and ritual from the perspective of archaeology. To this end, students will become familiar with anthropological approaches of religion and then examine how they have influenced the way archaeologists interpret the past. Students will read archaeological case studies from a variety of geographic areas, environments, and time periods that focus on topics such as animism, cosmology, shamanism, witchcraft, ritual, pilgrimage, materiality, and immateriality. At the end of this course, students will have a better understanding of the issues and debates surrounding the study of religion and ritual in archaeology, and how integrating new scientific techniques to changing paradigms in archaeology have contributed to a better understanding of the past.
Offered: Spring
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ATHS 155-1 Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Hylan Building Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: AHST 127-1 (P), ATHS 155-1
Instructors: Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer
Description: This course will introduce students to the art, architecture, and archeology of ancient Egypt, from the Predynastic Period until the country’s inclusion into the Roman Empire. This course will highlight the wide range of materials encountered in Egyptian archaeology—architectural remains in secular, sacred, and funerary contexts; material culture (pottery, stone and wooden artifacts, artistic creations); human and faunal remains; written documents; iconographic material—and will evaluate how they reflect the cultural, social, and political organization of each major period of Egyptian history. Special attention will be given to both Egypt’s interconnections with its neighbors—Nubians, Libyans, and inhabitants of Syria-Palestine—and the impact of religion on the artistic production. Material will be presented to the students in the form of lectures, student-led discussions on specific readings and topics, and guest lectures.
Offered: Fall Spring
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ATHS 210-1 Archaeological Thought Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1000 1245 Rush Rhees Library Room 442 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AHST 140-1, ATHS 210-1 (P), CLST 134-1, HIST 117-1
Instructors: Stefanie Bautista San Miguel
Description: How did archaeology come to be the way it is now? This course will survey some of the major theoretical trends that have shaped anthropological archaeology. More specifically, students will learn how anthropological theory has influenced the interpretive frameworks and epistemologies of archaeological inference. We will spend half of the semester focusing on early archaeological theory, and the second half on topics and theories that are now central in archaeology. By the end of this course, students should be able to define and identify the major theories in archaeology that include culture-history, processualism, post-processualism, middle-range theory, Marxism, agency, identity, feminist, community, and indigenous archaeology.
Offered: Fall
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ATHS 212-1 Art History and Ethnoarchaeology of West Africa Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 413 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AHST 232-1, ANTH 296-1, ATHS 212-1 (P), HIST 220-1
Instructors: William Gblerkpor
Description: The course will examine the nature and culture of the African Diaspora as found on the African continent, Europe, the Americas and elsewhere.
Offered: Spring
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ATHS 233A-1 Climate Change and the African Cultural Heritage Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Lattimore Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AHST 286A-1, ATHS 233A-1 (P), SUST 233A-1
Instructors: William Gblerkpor
Description: This course explores how climate change is causing the loss and damage of cultural heritage sites across Africa. It examines the continent’s cultural landscape heritage and assesses threats and impacts of rising temperatures, wetter climates, rising sea levels, and human migration on the survival and futures of Africa’s past. Africa’s long history of humankind and the peoples encounters with other cultures of the world, have created and shaped a rich and diverse cultural heritage that needs safeguarding
Offered: Spring
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ATHS 240-1 Historical Archaeology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Rush Rhees Library Room 456 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ATHS 240-1, HIST 280-1 (P), HIST 280W-1, HIST 497-1
Instructors: Michael Jarvis
Description: This course introduces students to historical archaeology and uses archaeological sites, material culture, and architecture to investigate European colonization of the Americas. Topics include Euro-Indian contact, the transfer of European and African cultures to American shores, creolization and the emergence of distinctly American traditions, Atlantic connections, and how non-documentary sources help us understand the lives of African-Americans, Indians, and white settlers.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ATHS 245-1 Digital History: Building a Virtual St. George's Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Goergen Hall Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ATHS 245-1, HIST 285-1 (P), HIST 285W-1, HIST 485-1
Instructors: Michael Jarvis
Description: Students will conduct guided research using a variety of software and historical sources to help create a Virtual Digital St. Georges a 400-year-old town with approximately 250 properties and historic buildings. We will build multi-layer 2D and selective 3D computer models of the oldest town in English America (founded 1612). Work will include integrating different types of historical data into Excel or ArcGIS databases, independent research on specific buildings and property owners using digital newspaper archives, "building" individual 3D houses within the town using Sketch-Up or Blender, reconstructing and furnishing historic house interiors using interior design software. Students with computer programming experience may develop mini-games or mobile devise apps to educate modern visitors to the town.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
BCSC 110-1 Neural Foundations of Behavior Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Hoyt Hall Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
131 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: BCSC 110-1 (P), CVSC 110-1, PSYC 110-1
Instructors: Kevin Davis
Description: Introduces the structure and organization of the brain, and its role in perception, movement, thinking, and other behavior. Topics include the brain as a special kind of computer, localization of function, effects of brain damage and disorders, differences between human and animal brains, sex differences, perception and control of movement, sleep, regulation of body states and emotions, and development and aging. No prerequisites.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 111-1 Foundations of Cognitive Science Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Hoyt Hall Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
177 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: BCSC 111-1 (P), PSYC 111-1
Instructors: Martina Poletti
Description: Introduces the organization of mental processes underlying cognition and behavior. Topics include perception, language, learning, memory, and intelligence. This course integrates knowledge of cognition generated from the field of cognitive psychology with findings from artificial intelligence and cognitive neuroscience. No prerequisites.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 153-1 Cognition Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Dewey Room 1101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
117 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: BCSC 153-1 (P), PSYC 153-1
Instructors: Chung-Lin Yang
Description: Considers human cognitive processes, including behavioral, cognitive-neuroscientific, connectionist, and evolutionary approaches to the understanding of cognition. Explores how we perceive and integrate sensory information to build a coherent perception of the world. Includes topics on perception, attention, memory, language, cognitive development, and artificial intelligence.

Prerequisites: BCS 111 required, BCS 110 recommended
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 172-1 Development of Mind & Brain Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Morey Room 321 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
93 		Capacity     
125
Co-Located: BCSC 172-1 (P), PSYC 172-1
Instructors: Daniel Mruzek
Description: Introduces human development, focusing on the ability to perceive objects and sounds, to think and reason, and to learn and remember language and other significant patterned stimulation. Includes the nature and mechanisms of development in humans and an overview of what is known about brain and behavioral development in other species. No prerequisites.
Offered: Spring
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BCSC 185-2 Social Cognition Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
45 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: BCSC 185-2, PSYC 210-1 (P)
Instructors: Jeremy Jamieson
Description: Social cognition combines classic social psychology with methods and theories from cognitive psychology and neuroscience to study how people make sense of each other and the social world. We will examine how the social environment influences cognitive processes such as attention, heuristics, and appraisals, and how these processes in turn affect decisions, behaviors, and health. We will critically evaluate research on a variety of topics, such as emotion regulation, stereotyping and prejudice, and stress and decision making.

Prerequisite: PSYC 101 recommended
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 203-1 Lab in Neurobiology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1230 1640 Meliora Room 111 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: BCSC 203-1 (P), NSCI 203-1
Instructors: Jude Mitchell; Adam Snyder; David Kornack
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Introduces the various methods used in neurobiological research. Covers anatomical, behavioral, molecular, and physiological approaches to studying neural organization and function and concludes with a research project that extends over a period of five weeks. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR A WORKSHOP WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN SECTION.

Prerequisites: NSCI 201/BCSC 240 with lab, STAT 212
Offered: Spring
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BCSC 203-2 Lab in Neurobiology Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1230 1640 Meliora Room 111 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: BCSC 203-2 (P), NSCI 203-2
Instructors: Jude Mitchell
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Introduces the various methods used in neurobiological research. Covers anatomical, behavioral, molecular, and physiological approaches to studying neural organization and function and concludes with a research project that extends over a period of five weeks. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR A WORKSHOP WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN SECTION.

Prerequisites: NSCI 201/BCSC 240 with lab, and STAT 212
Offered: Spring
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BCSC 203-3 Lab in Neurobiology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1230 1640 Meliora Room 111 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: BCSC 203-3 (P), NSCI 203-3
Instructors: Jude Mitchell
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Introduces the various methods used in neurobiological research. Covers anatomical, behavioral, molecular, and physiological approaches to studying neural organization and function and concludes with a research project that extends over a period of five weeks. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR A WORKSHOP WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN SECTION.

Prerequisites: NSCI 201/BCSC 240 with lab, and STAT 212
Offered: Spring
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BCSC 204-1 Lab in Cognitive Neuroscience Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Meliora Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Chung-Lin Yang
Description: Introduces methods used in cognitive neuroscience, a field that examines cognitive phenomena in terms of their underpinnings in the brain. Covers brain imaging approaches to studying cognition. Provides hands-on knowledge for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) experiment design and data analysis.

Prerequisites: STAT 212 and BCSC 153.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 208-1 Lab in Perception & Cognition Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1530 1830 Meliora Room 178 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: BCSC 208-1 (P), CVSC 208-1, PSYC 208-1
Instructors: Kevin Davis
Description: Introduces behavioral and psychophysical studies of perceptual and cognitive phenomena. Students perform, analyze, interpret, and report results from experiments that move from reproducing classic phenomena to conducting new studies independently.

Prerequisites: STAT 212 and either BCSC 151 or BCSC 153
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 221-1 Auditory Perception Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Hutchison Hall Room 473 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: BCSC 221-1 (P), BCSC 521-1, PSYC 221-1
Instructors: Kevin Davis
Description: This course considers how we comprehend the auditory environment. Topics include the physical stimulus for hearing, the physiology of the auditory system (both at the periphery and in the central nervous system), the psychophysics of basic auditory perception (e.g., hearing thresholds), higher level auditory perception (including auditory scene analysis and the perception of complex auditory events such as speech and music), and hearing disorders. Considers research from a diverse range of perspectives including behavioral research, cognitive neuroscience, studies of individual differences, and research that adopts a comparative perspective.

Prerequisite: BCSC 110 or BCSC 111
Offered: Spring
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BCSC 223-1 Vision and the Eye Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: BCSC 223-1, OPT 248-1 (P), OPT 448-1, TEO 448-1
Instructors: Sarah Walters
Description: This course will reveal the intricate optical and neural machinery inside the eye that allows us to see. It will describe the physical and biological processes that set the limits on our perception of patterns of light that vary in luminance and color across space and time, We will compare the human eye with the acute eyes of predatory birds and the compound eyes of insects. The course will also describe exciting new optical technologies for correcting vision and for imaging the inside of the eye with unprecedented resolution, and how these technologies can help us understand and even cure diseases of the eye.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 232-1 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Wegmans Room 1400 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
130 		Capacity     
130
Co-Located: BCSC 232-1, CSC 242-1 (P), DSCC 242-1
Instructors: George Ferguson
Description:
Introduces fundamental principles and techniques from Artificial Intelligence, including heuristic search, automated reasoning, handling uncertainty, and machine learning, to prepare students for advanced AI courses.
Prerequisites: MATH 150 and CSC 172. CSC 173 STRONGLY recommended. AUDITS NOT ALLOWED.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 235-1 Natural Language Processing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Hylan Building Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
47 		Capacity     
48
Co-Located: BCSC 235-1, BCSC 435-1, CSC 247-1 (P), CSC 447-1, LING 247-1, LING 447-1, TCS 447-1
Instructors: Hangfeng He
Description: This course addresses issues of representing computing meaning from natural language, especially issues of understanding language in context using commonsense knowledge of the world. Topics will include a survey of English phrase structure and parsing, semantic representation (e.g., events, semantic roles, time, causality and speech acts), and theories and techniques for understanding language in context, including intention recognition, text understanding using knowledge of scripts and plans, and models of spoken dialogue systems (e.g., conversational agents such as Siri). CSC447, the graduate level version of the course, requires a substantial individual project.

Prerequisite: CSC 242
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 236-1 Machine Vision Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
47 		Capacity     
75
Co-Located: BCSC 236-1, BCSC 536-1, CSC 249-1 (P), CSC 449-1, ECE 449-1, TCS 449-1
Instructors: Jiebo Luo
Description: Introduction to computer vision, including camera models, basic image processing, pattern and object recognition, and elements of human vision. Specific topics include geometric issues, statistical models, Hough transforms, color theory, texture, and optic flow. CSC 449, a graduate-level course, requires additional readings and assignments.

Prerequisites: MATH 161 and CSC 242; MATH 165 strongly recommended or equivalent.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 244-1 Neuroethology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Hylan Building Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
48
Co-Located: BCSC 244-1 (P), NSCI 244-1
Instructors: Renee Miller
Description: Explores the neural basis of naturally occurring animal behaviors. Emphasizes how information is integrated from interactions between molecules, cells, and groups of cells, all of which are necessary to produce behavior. Considers how hormones, neural development, anatomy, physiology, and evolution lead to behaviors such as orientation, communication, feeding, and reproduction.

Prerequisite: BCSC 240/NSCI 201
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 246-1 Biology of Mental Disorders Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Goergen Hall Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
68 		Capacity     
80
Co-Located: BCSC 246-1 (P), BCSC 546-1, NSCI 246-1, PSYC 246-1
Instructors: Renee Miller
Description: Examines the neurobiology of anxiety/phobic conditions, mood disorders, and chronic psychotic states, particularly schizophrenia. Considers definitions of psychiatric syndromes, the problems of diagnosis, brain organization, and neurotransmitter systems involved in state functions. Introduces research approaches including epidemiologic, phenomenologic, family/adoption, longitudinal descriptive, psychophysiologic, neuropharmacologic, genetic linkage, and postmortem studies; emphasizes recent in vivo brain imaging and neuroreceptor studies.

Prerequisite: NSCI 201/BCSC 240
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 249-1 Developmental Neurobiology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
27 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: BCSC 249-1 (P), NSCI 249-1
Instructors: Mary Wines-Samuelson
Description: Advanced treatment of the development of the nervous system, including the nature/nurture issue and factors that influence the development of neural organization and function. Topics include the production, migration, differentiation and survival of neurons; functional specialization of neural regions; axonal navigation; target mapping. Compares and contrasts developmental plasticity with forms of neural plasticity exhibited in adults.

Prerequisite: NSCI 201/BCSC 240
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 250-1 Acquired Brain Disorders Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1640 School of Medicine and Dentistry Room 28130 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: BCSC 250-1 (P), NSCI 250-1
Instructors: Renee Miller
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This upper level elective course provides unique perspectives on the clinical diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of acquired brain injuries and diseases, along with their epidemiology and basic research findings, including those gleaned from associated animal models. It is intended for highly motivated students in their senior year with a strong inclination toward medical school or other clinical practice. The student will learn about clinical diagnostic methods, practice differential diagnosis and treatment planning through simulated (virtual) cases, and shadow clinicians as part of this course. Students will also engage with primary research literature to understand underlying pathological mechanisms for diseases such as stroke, cancer, epilepsy as well as neuropathic pain and traumatic brain injury.

Prerequisite: NSCI 201/BCSC 240
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 252-1 Functional Neuroanatomy Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 School Of Medicine And Dentistry Room 36408 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
24
Co-Located: BCSC 252-1 (P), NSCI 252-1
Instructors: Sarah McConnell
Description: This course examines the structure and function of the nervous system and considers the implications of relevant injuries and diseases. Learning objectives will be addressed through lectures, laboratories, discussions, and student presentations.

Prerequisite: BIOL 110 or equivalent
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BCSC 257-1 Advanced Computational Neuroscience Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Meliora Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: BCSC 257-1 (P), BCSC 557-1, CSC 243-1, CSC 443-2, NSCI 257-1
Instructors: Ralf Haefner
Description: This is a seminar-style course for advanced undergraduate and graduate students covering multiple areas of computational neuroscience by weekly readings and student presentations. Many of the topics are deeper explorations of topics covered in BCSC 247 Introduction to Computational Neuroscience, focusing on the sensory system, decision-making, action selection and active inference, especially from a probabilistic and normative perspective. The reading list is somewhat flexible and adaptable to student interest. There is an opportunity for a final project but this is not required.

Prerequisite: BCSC 247 or permission of instructor
Offered: Spring
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BCSC 260-1 Music & the Mind Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Morey Room 321 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
65 		Capacity     
70
Co-Located: BCSC 260-1 (P), MUSC 162-1, TH 260-1, TH 460-1
Instructors: Elise Piazza
Description: Introduction to the discipline of music cognition. Topics include empirical methods, psycho-acoustic principles, influence of Gestalt psychology, music and language, metric and tonal hierarchies, music and the brain, aspects of musical development, and research on musical memory, expectation, and emotion.

Prerequisite: One semester of collegiate music theory (MUR 101, MUR 110, MUR 111 or TH 101), AP exam score of 4 or 5, or permission of instructor.
Offered: Spring
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BCSC 264-1 Sign Language Structure Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lechase Room 160 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: ASLA 200-1 (P), BCSC 264-1, BCSC 564-1, LING 230-1, LING 430-1
Instructors: Norma Tourangeau
Description: An examination of signed languages and the cognitive constraints that shape them, through a detailed consideration of the structure of American Sign Language and other natural signed languages of the world. Includes training in sign language notation and analysis. Prerequisites: ASL 106 in the immediately preceding semester or permission of the instructor. B or better in ASL 106.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 266-1 Speech on the Brain Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Bausch & Lomb Room 270 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
26 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: BCSC 266-1 (P), BME 216-1, BME 416-1, LING 216-1, LING 416-1
Instructors: Laurel Carney
Description: The focus of this course is on neural representations of speech sounds; introduction to basics of speech phonetics and responses from the auditory nerve through the brainstem, midbrain, and cortex; techniques for analyzing speech and neural responses. Students from BME, LING, BCSC, NSCI and other programs will work in interdisciplinary teams on a final project.
Offered: Spring
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BCSC 278-1 Social Neuroscience Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Goergen Hall Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
50 		Capacity     
50
Instructors: David Dodell-Feder
Description: Human beings are fundamentally social animals equipped with a brilliant piece of social machinery: the brain. Through the workings of this elegant electrical and biological machine we are able to reason about other people’s unobservable thoughts, emotions, and intentions, make moral judgments, and communicate with others. How does the brain develop the ability to accomplish these tasks? What regions of the brain are involved and what computations do they perform? How is this neural machinery affected by the social environment and psychiatric illness? In this course, we will examine the latest research in human social neuroscience towards answering these and related questions.

This is a social science course.

Prerequisites: PSYC 101 or BCSC 110
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 310-1 Senior Seminar Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Meliora Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: BCSC 310-1 (P), BCSC 311-1
Instructors: Dora Biro
Description: A 2-credit-hour course required of all senior BCS majors who do not enter the honors program. Emphasizes reading, evaluating, and discussing primary research papers. Each student chooses a topic, becomes familiar with it, selects a classic paper, leads a class discussion, and writes an evaluation of the paper as though providing peer review for a journal.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 311-1 Honors Seminar Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Meliora Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: BCSC 310-1 (P), BCSC 311-1
Instructors: Dora Biro
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: A 2-credit course required of seniors in the BCS Honors program. Students choose a classic paper for the class to read, lead a discussion of it, and give a formal oral and written presentation of their honors theses. To be taken in the semester the honors thesis is completed. See BCS 310 and refer to the Undergraduate Programs Coordinator in the Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences for more information.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 390-1 Supervised Teaching: BCSC 111 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Martina Poletti
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 390-10 Supervised Teaching: BCSC 153 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Chung-Lin Yang
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 390-2 Supervised Teaching: BCSC 153 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Chung-Lin Yang
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 390-3 Supervised Teaching: BCSC 172 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Daniel Mruzek
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 390-4 Supervised Teaching: BCSC 252 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Sarah McConnell
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 390-5 Supervised Teaching: BCSC 110 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Kevin Davis
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 390-6 Supervised Teaching: BCSC 204 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Chung-Lin Yang
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 390-7 Supervised Teaching: BCSC 260 Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Elise Piazza
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 390-8 Supervised Teaching: BCSC 249 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Mary Wines-Samuelson
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 390-9 Supervised Teaching: BCSC 246 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Renee Miller
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 393-1 BCS Honors Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Duje Tadin
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 393-2 BCS Honors Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Tim Jaeger
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 393-3 BCS Honors Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Ralf Haefner
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 393-4 BCS Honors Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Jude Mitchell
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 393-5 BCS Honors Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Lauren Hablitz
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 393-6 BCS Honors Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Wilfred Pigeon
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 435-1 Natural Language Processing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Hylan Building Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
47 		Capacity     
48
Co-Located: BCSC 235-1, BCSC 435-1, CSC 247-1 (P), CSC 447-1, LING 247-1, LING 447-1, TCS 447-1
Instructors: Hangfeng He
Description: This course addresses issues of representing computing meaning from natural language, especially issues of understanding language in context using commonsense knowledge of the world. Topics will include a survey of English phrase structure and parsing, semantic representation (e.g., events, semantic roles, time, causality and speech acts), and theories and techniques for understanding language in context, including intention recognition, text understanding using knowledge of scripts and plans, and models of spoken dialogue systems (e.g., conversational agents such as Siri). CSC447, the graduate level version of the course, requires a substantial individual project.

Prerequisite: CSC 242
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 504-1 Sensory Systems Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 930 1200 Meliora Room 269 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: BCSC 504-1 (P), CVSC 504-1
Instructors: Gregory DeAngelis
Description: An introduction to the functioning of the senses and the physiological mechanisms underlying them. Topics include vision, audition, somatosensation, the vestibular system, guestation and olfaction, with an emphasis on the general principles that govern mammalian sensory systems.
Offered: Spring
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BCSC 521-1 Auditory Perception Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Hutchison Hall Room 473 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: BCSC 221-1 (P), BCSC 521-1, PSYC 221-1
Instructors: Kevin Davis
Description: This course considers how we comprehend the auditory environment. Topics include the physical stimulus for hearing, the physiology of the auditory system (both at the periphery and in the central nervous system), the psychophysics of basic auditory perception (e.g., hearing thresholds), higher level auditory perception (including auditory scene analysis and the perception of complex auditory events such as speech and music), and hearing disorders. Considers research from a diverse range of perspectives including behavioral research, cognitive neuroscience, studies of individual differences, and research that adopts a comparative perspective.
Offered: Spring
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BCSC 528-1 Special Topics in Vision Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1400 1640 Meliora Room 218 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: BCSC 528-1 (P), CVSC 528-1
Instructors: Duje Tadin
Description: Advanced graduate seminar on a chose problem in vision sciences. In previous years, topics have included motion perception, stereopsis, color vision and visuo-motor control. Readings for the course are drawn from the scientific literature in the topic being covered. Students are typically required to lead discussions on papers.
Offered: Fall Spring
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BCSC 536-1 Machine Vision Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
47 		Capacity     
75
Co-Located: BCSC 236-1, BCSC 536-1, CSC 249-1 (P), CSC 449-1, ECE 449-1, TCS 449-1
Instructors: Jiebo Luo
Description: Introduction to computer vision, including camera models, basic image processing, pattern and object recognition, and elements of human vision. Specific topics include geometric issues, statistical models, Hough transforms, color theory, texture, and optic flow. CSC 449, a graduate-level course, requires additional readings and assignments.

Prerequisites: MATH 161 and CSC 242; MATH 165 strongly recommended or equivalent.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 546-1 Biology of Mental Disorders Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Goergen Hall Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
68 		Capacity     
80
Co-Located: BCSC 246-1 (P), BCSC 546-1, NSCI 246-1, PSYC 246-1
Instructors: Renee Miller
Description: Examines the neurobiology of anxiety/phobic conditions, mood disorders, and chronic psychotic states, particularly schizophrenia. Considers definitions of psychiatric syndromes, the problems of diagnosis, brain organization, and neurotransmitter systems involved in state functions. Introduces research approaches including epidemiologic, phenomenologic, family/adoption, longitudinal descriptive, psychophysiologic, neuropharmacologic, genetic linkage, and postmortem studies; emphasizes recent in vivo brain imaging and neuroreceptor studies.

Prerequisite: NSCI 201/BCSC 240
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 557-1 Advanced Computational Neuroscience Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Meliora Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: BCSC 257-1 (P), BCSC 557-1, CSC 243-1, CSC 443-2, NSCI 257-1
Instructors: Ralf Haefner
Description: This is a seminar-style course for advanced undergraduate and graduate students covering multiple areas of computational neuroscience by weekly readings and student presentations. Many of the topics are deeper explorations of topics covered in BCSC 547 Introduction to Computational Neuroscience, focusing on the sensory system, decision-making, action selection and active inference, especially from a probabilistic and normative perspective. The reading list is somewhat flexible and adaptable to student interest. There is an opportunity for a final project but this is not required.

Prerequisite: BCSC 547 or permission of instructor
Offered: Spring
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BCSC 564-1 Sign Language Structure Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lechase Room 160 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: ASLA 200-1 (P), BCSC 264-1, BCSC 564-1, LING 230-1, LING 430-1
Instructors: Norma Tourangeau
Description: An examination of signed languages and the cognitive constraints that shape them, through a detailed consideration of the structure of American Sign Language and other natural signed languages of the world. Includes training in sign language notation and analysis. Prerequisites: ASL 106 in the immediately preceding semester or permission of the instructor. B or better in ASL 106.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 571-1 Selected Topics in Augmented and Virtual Reality Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Todd Union Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
0
Co-Located: BCSC 571-1, BME 413-1, CSC 414-1, CVSC 535-1, ECE 411-1 (P), NSCI 416-1, OPT 438-1
Instructors: Mujdat Cetin; Chenliang Xu; Ross Maddox
Restrictions: Instructor permission required for Undergraduates - AS&E
Description:
This is the second course offered as part of the PhD training program on augmented and virtual reality. It builds on the first course, Introduction to Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR). The goal of the course is to provide exposure to problems in the AR/VR domain addressed by various disciplines. The course consists of three one-month long modules in a semester. Modules engage students in particular aspects of AR/VR or hands-on experience on AR/VR. Modules to be offered in various years include: fundamentals of optics for AR/VR; AR/VR in the silicon; foundations of visual perception in the context of AR/VR; computer audition and acoustic rendering; measuring the human brain; deep learning and visual recognition for AR/VR; brain-computer interfacing in a virtual environment; 3D interfaces and interaction; AR/VR for collaborative education & professional training. In Spring 2023, the following three modules will be offered: 1) Deep learning and visual recognition for AR/VR. (Prof. Chenliang Xu) Recent developments in deep learning have significantly advanced state-of-the-art visual recognition in problems such as object detection, activity recognition, and semantic segmentation. In this module, students will learn core concepts in deep learning, including convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks. They will receive hands-on experience using popular deep-learning libraries like PyTorch to build visual recognition algorithms for AR/VR systems. 2) Measuring the human brain. (Prof. Ross Maddox) This module will introduce students to studies of human brain function using non-invasive methods. It will focus on experimental paradigms and data analysis in the time and frequency domains. Neural encoding and decoding models and applications to brain-computer interfaces will also be discussed. The module will have a mixed format, with lectures and labs. Lab exercises will be based on analyzing real data from human subjects. 3) Professional encounters with leading AR/VR researchers. This module will involve a series of seminars and discussion sessions with leading AR/VR researchers from academia and industry. Prerequisites: ECE 410 or OPT 410 or BME 410 or NSCI 415 or CSC 413 or CVSC 534
INSTRUCTORS: Chenliang Xu; Ross Maddox; Mujdat Cetin
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BCSC 582-1 Grant Writing: Brain & Cognitive Science Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1330 1600 Meliora Room 301B 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Michele Rucci
Description: A workshop in which students will write a proposal for either a pre-doctoral or post-doctoral NRSA fellowship from NIH. Students will review old NRSA proposals, both successful and unsuccessful and analyze the components of a successful proposal. Through process of peer review and discussion, students will write and revise the main sections of an NRSA proposal, culminating in a penultimate proposal that will be reviewed by two mock study sections one in the class and one by faculty in BCS and CVS. Reviews from these study sections will be returned a week before the deadline for NRSA proposals at NIH. Students are encouraged to use the class to prepare real proposals that they can submit to NIH.
Offered: Spring
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BCSC 598-1 Supervised Teaching Assistant Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Ralf Haefner
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 598-2 Supervised Teaching Assistant Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Martina Poletti
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 598-3 Supervised Teaching Assistant Spring 2023 3.0 Open
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Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Chung-Lin Yang
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 598-4 Supervised Teaching Assistant Spring 2023 3.0 Open
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Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Elise Piazza
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 598-5 Supervised Teaching Assistant Spring 2023 3.0 Open
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Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Kevin Davis
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 598-6 Supervised Teaching Assistant Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Daniel Mruzek
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 599-1 Professional Development & Career Planning Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Duje Tadin
Description: The purpose of this 1-credit course is to provide first- and second-year graduate students with a set of guiding principles for optimizing their progression through the PhD program. The following topics will be discussed: fulfilling program requirements, advising and mentoring, time management, conference presentations and journal publications, writing skills for journals and grants, how to juggle, persist, drop, and collaborate in your research projects, the post-PhD job market and qualifications required for success.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 999A-1 Doctoral Dissertation in Absentia Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Michele Rucci
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 999A-2 Doctoral Dissertation in Absentia Spring 2023 Lecture Open
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Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 999A-3 Doctoral Dissertation in Absentia Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BCSC 999A-4 Doctoral Dissertation in Absentia Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Biology
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
BIOL 110-1 Principles of Biology I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 900 950 Goergen Hall Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
50 		Capacity     
72
Instructors: Michael Clark
Description: First semester in a course sequence for all biology majors. The course will provide an introduction to biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, and animal physiology. Emphasis will be placed on quantitative learning and data analysis. Weekly workshops will emphasize the construction and interpretation of graphs.

Prerequisites: Completion or concurrent enrollment in CHM 131 or equivalent
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 111L-2 Principles of Bio II W/LAB Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 900 950 Hutchison Hall Room 141 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
380 		Capacity     
470
Instructors: Robert Minckley
Description: Second semester of a year-long introductory sequence for students with an interest in the biological sciences. Topics include evolution, organismal diversity, functional biology, and ecology. This course differs from BIO 113 in that there is a greater emphasis on natural history and less emphasis on mathematical modeling of biological processes. Note that both BIO 111 and BIO 113 are designed for students who intend to major in biology. Open to all students. The course includes three lectures, one recitation per week, and a bi-weekly laboratory.

Please note that the laboratory is required. Students will be prompted to register for BIOL 099. BIOL 099 A-week labs begin the week of 1/23/2022 and BIOL 099 B-Week labs begin the week of 1/30/2022. Students will attend these labs every other week.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 113L-1 Perspect in Bio II W/Lab Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 900 950 Wegmans Room 1400 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
101 		Capacity     
140
Instructors: Floria Uy
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Second semester of a year-long introductory sequence for students with a strong background and interest in science. Topics include evolution (including the evolution of diseases), organismal diversity, physiology, animal behavior, and ecology. This course will have an optional textbook as guidance for students, but we will also use information from relevant scientific articles. Students will learn how to read, analyze and discuss data from these articles. Note that both BIO 111 and BIO 113 are designed for students who intend to major in biology. Open only to first-year students or by permission of instructor. The course includes three lectures, one recitation per week, and a bi-weekly laboratory.

Please note that the laboratory is required. Students will be prompted to register for BIOL 099. BIOL 099 A-week labs begin the week of 1/23/2022 and BIOL 099 B-Week labs begin the week of 1/30/2022. Students will attend these labs every other week.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 205-1 Evolution Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Gavett Hall Room 310 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
48 		Capacity     
48
Co-Located: BIOL 205-1 (P), BIOL 405-1
Instructors: James Fry
Description: History of evolutionary thought; genetics of populations; phylogenetic reconstruction; origin and history of life; evolution of social behavior and species interactions; mechanisms of speciation; human evolution. Students must also sign up for a recitation when registering for the lecture.

Prerequisites: A year of introductory biology and facility in precalculus mathematics.  BIO 190 or BIO 198 strongly recommended.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 205W-1 Evolutionary Biology - Writing Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 900 1015 Wegmans Room 1009 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: James Fry
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Students will lead a discussion on a primary research article in evolutionary biology, and write a summary of the article for a non-specialist audience, with multiple rounds of feedback (including peer feedback) and revision. Course will meet most, but not all, Fridays.

Prerequisites: Prior or concurrent enrollment in BIOL 205

Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 210-1 Cell Biology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Hutchison Hall Room 140 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
49 		Capacity     
80
Instructors: Mary Wines-Samuelson
Description: An intermediate-level course that covers fundamental cell processes at the molecular level. Topics include organelle structure and functions, membrane biogenesis, cytoskeleton, cell signaling, cell cycle growth, and death.

Prerequisites: BIO 110 or 112 and BIO 111 or 113. BIO 198 or BIO 190 and BIO 250 are strongly suggested.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 210W-1 Cell Biology Writing Spring 2023 0.5 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
13
Instructors: Mary Wines-Samuelson
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Optional Upper-Level Writing Course for BIO 210
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 217L-1 Prin of Human Anatomy W/Lab Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Dewey Room 1101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
63 		Capacity     
80
Instructors: Jonathan Holz
Description: This course focuses on the structures of the body with a special emphasis on humans. Topics include the integumentary, skeletal, muscular, endocrine, nervous, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, digestive, and reproductive systems. Students must register for lab. The lecture portion of the course uses the same textbook as BIO 204 (Human Physiology) and an additional laboratory manual. STUDENTS CANNOT RECEIVE CREDIT FOR BIO 217 AND BME 258.

Prerequisites: Two semesters of introductory biology e.g. BIO 110 or BIO 112 and BIO 111 or BIO 113 or permission of instructor

Eligibility Rule: Not open to first year students - ASE
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 217W-1 Human Anatomy Writing Spring 2023 0.5 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
8
Instructors: Jonathan Holz
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Optional Upper-Level Writing Course for BIOL 217
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 219L-1 Genomics of Quant Traits W/Lab Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Meliora Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: BIOL 219L-1 (P), BIOL 419L-1
Instructors: Ryan Bickel
Description: Human body size, behavior and many diseases are quantitative traits; they vary continuously and are determined by a large number of genes. The study of quantitative traits can provide insights into the genes underlying disease and how species have evolved. This course will cover the identification and analysis of genes affecting quantitative traits and the evolutionary forces that influence genes and genomes in animal model systems. These studies are increasingly being used in humans and are the future of modern medicine. The lab component will provide students a hands-on introduction to the computational methods. Labs will be primarily conducted using R.

Prerequisites: BIO 190 OR 198, BIO 214 OR EQUIVALENT
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 228A-1 iGEM I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1640 Morey Room 501 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Anne Meyer; Alexis Stein; Nancy Chen
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The objective of the International Genetically Engineered Machines competition is to design and build an engineered biological system using DNA technologies over the course of the summer. iGEM projects aim to solve local, real-world problems, for example by engineering bacteria that can break down plastic waste. You will design your own experiments, construct new genetic parts, and validate the constructs using new characterization assays. In addition to the wet-lab research, iGEM involves mathematical modeling to predict the behavior and guide the design of the new biological parts and characterization assays. Students also design, construct, characterize, and improve their own piece of hardware that will work together with the designed biological organism. The policy and practice component addresses the social, legal, and ethical issues of the project. iGEM is multi-disciplinary, highly collaborative, and student-managed. You will travel to Boston and interact with 300 universities from all over the world.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 243-1 Eukaryotic Gene Regulation Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Dewey Room 2162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
67 		Capacity     
75
Co-Located: BIOL 243-1 (P), BIOL 443-1, IND 443-1
Instructors: Cheeptip Benyajati
Description: This advanced course examines mechanisms of chromatin-mediated regulation of the eukaryotic genomes, gene expression, relating molecular structures, dynamic interactions, nuclear processes, 3-D nuclear organization to biological functions. Topics include DNA structures, packaging and higher order chromatin organization in the nucleus, the transcription machinery, eukaryotic chromosome structure and its modifications, epigenetics and functional genomics, dynamics of nuclear processes, nuclear reprogramming, development and applications of genome manipulation technology. Lectures and readings draw heavily on primary literature both classic and most recent.

Prerequisites: BIO 198, Genetics, BIO 250/250H, Biochemistry; good knowledge of Molecular Biology. Cell Biology and/or Developmental Biology recommended.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 243W-1 Eukaryotic Gene Regulation-Writing Spring 2023 0.5 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
6
Instructors: Cheeptip Benyajati
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Optional Upper-Level Writing Course for BIO 243
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 250-1 Biochemistry Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1025 1115 Hutchison Hall Room 141 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
265 		Capacity     
280
Instructors: Alexis Stein
Description: Fundamental aspects of biochemistry, including biomolecular structure and catalysis, bioenergetics, protein folding, kinetic analysis of enzyme action and general intermediary metabolism. In addition to lecture, the course will include a weekly workshop lab that integrates discussion with experimental procedures.

The optional companion lab for this course is BIOl 250P.

Prerequisites: BIOL 110 or BIOL 112 and CHEM 203
Biological Science Majors: Prior or Concurrent enrollment in BIOL 190/198 and CHEM 204 are strongly recommended.
Post-baccalaureate Pre-health students: BIOL 190/198 are not required.
Offered: Spring Summer
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BIOL 250PW-1 Biochemistry Lab Writing Spring 2023 0.5 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Alexis Stein
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Optional upper-level writing course for Bio 250p.  You must be enrolled in the corresponding lab section (250P-1) to enroll in this writing course.  This will fulfill 1 of the Upper-Level Writing Requirements required for biology majors.  Instructor permission required to enroll.
Offered: Spring
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BIOL 252-1 Principles of Biochemistry Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1025 1115 Hoyt Hall Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
51 		Capacity     
120
Instructors: Sina Ghaemmaghami
Description: Chemistry and structure of biological macromolecules. Topics include protein structure, enzyme catalysis and kinetics, metabolism, bioenergetics, biochemical techniques and mathematical modeling of biochemical processes. Includes discussions of primary literature, and history of important biochemical discoveries. Includes weekly workshops. The optional companion lab for this course is BIOL 250P. Required for BBC majors. Prerequisites: BIOL 110 or BIOL 112, BIOL 190 or 198, CHEM 203, prior or concurrent enrollment in CHEM 204 or CHEM 172.
Offered: Spring
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BIOL 253L-1 Computational Bio With Lab - Lecture Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Meliora Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
36 		Capacity     
60
Co-Located: BIOL 253L-1 (P), BIOL 453L-1
Instructors: Justin Fay
Description: The course will provide an introduction to computational approaches to biological problems, including the theory, algorithms and methods used in the analysis and interpretation of genomes. The course will cover alignment, motifs, maximum likelihood, Markov models (HMM and MCMC), expectation maximization and machine learning methods used to interpret genomes and address problems in comparative genomics, population genomics and metagenomics. The lab BIO 253L/453L is required and will provide an introduction to Python and implementing methods in computational biology.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 253W-1 Computational Biology Upper-Level Writing Spring 2023 0.5 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Justin Fay
Description: Optional 0.5 credit Upper-Level Writing Course for BIO 253.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 261W-1 Genetic Research A Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
4
Instructors: John Werren
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Hands on experience in conducting animal behavior research, with a focus on the genetics of behavior using Nasonia vitripennis. Behaviors investigated include mate preference, host acceptance, courtship, dispersal, activity level, territoriality, aggression, and flight. Develop methods of quantitative behavioral observation, genetic crossing, data analysis, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), animal husbandry, research record keeping, basic bioinformatics, and research presentation.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 263-1 Ecology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Morey Room 321 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
60 		Capacity     
65
Co-Located: BIOL 263-1 (P), BIOL 463-1
Instructors: John Albert Uy
Description: A survey of adaptations to the physical environment, dynamics of natural populations, interactions between species, and ecosystem function.

Prerequisites for taking the course include two semesters of Introductory Biology Courses (i.e., BIOL 110L or 112L, plus BIOL 111L OR 113L) and MTH 142 or MTH 161.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 263W-1 Ecology Writing Spring 2023 0.5 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
9
Instructors: John Albert Uy
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Optional Upper-Level Writing Course for BIOL 263

Prerequisites: Must be currently enrolled in BIOL 263
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 268-1 Lab in Molecular, Cell&Dev Bio Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1800 Hutchison Hall Room 217 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: BIOL 268-1 (P), BIOL 468-1
Instructors: Xin Bi
Description: This course is designed to provide (1) introduction to model organisms (2) training in specific methods used in molecular, cell and developmental biology research, with emphasis on data acquisition and analysis (3) experience in the design and execution of experiments, reading and writing scientific reports, and public scientific presentation.

Prerequisites: Completion of biology and chemistry core requirements, as well as BIOL 198 or BIOL 190 and BIOL 250 required
Offered: Spring Summer
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BIOL 268-2 Lab in Molecular, Cell&Dev Bio Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1800 Hutchison Hall Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: BIOL 268-2 (P), BIOL 468-2
Instructors: Xin Bi
Description: This course is designed to provide (1) introduction to model organisms (2) training in specific methods used in molecular, cell and developmental biology research, with emphasis on data acquisition and analysis (3) experience in the design and execution of experiments, reading and writing scientific reports, and public scientific presentation.

Prerequisites: Completion of biology and chemistry core requirements, as well as BIO 198 or BIO 190 and BIO 250 required
Offered: Spring Summer
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BIOL 268W-1 Lab in Molecular Genetics Spring 2023 0.5 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Xin Bi
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: 2021.10.13: changed delivery mode to in-person (MA)

Optional Upper-Level Writing Course for BIO 268
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 272W-1 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Biology and Public Health Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 940 1055 Bausch & Lomb Room 315 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: BIOL 272W-1, WRTG 272-1 (P)
Instructors: Katherine Schaefer
Description: This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. The class is suitable for juniors and seniors and can be used to fulfill 1 of the 2 required Upper-Level Writing experiences in biology or public health. NOTE: every other class will take place online. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 272W-2 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Biology and Public Health Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1525 1640 Hylan Building Room 306 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: BIOL 272W-2, WRTG 272-2 (P)
Instructors: Katherine Schaefer
Description: This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. The class is suitable for juniors and seniors and can be used to fulfill 1 of the 2 required Upper-Level Writing experiences in biology or public health. NOTE: every other class will take place online. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 274W-3 What Do You Mean I Can't Do That? Learning to Write Like an "Insider" in Your Discipline(s) Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Rush Rhees Library Room G108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: BIOL 274W-3, WRTG 262-2 (P)
Instructors: Katherine Schaefer
Description: Drawing on the concepts of discourse community and rhetorical genre analysis (e.g., Bazerman, Berkenhotter & Huckin, Swales), this course investigates ways of understanding the choices writers make when communicating about the natural, social, or applied sciences, with the goal of better understanding how to read and write as an ‘insider’ in your chosen discipline. You will develop a technical vocabulary and set of skills that allow you to describe recurring patterns and writer choices within those patterns. Using these tools, and talking to experts in your chosen discipline(s), you will investigate disciplinary and interdisciplinary boundaries, how writers convey meaning in different situations, and why they make the writing choices they do. Through a final research project of your choice, you will practice using what you have learned to communicate the results of your own research. This course is especially suitable for dual-major students, or those heading to graduate or health professions schools. Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 278-1 Biochem Mech of Cell Pro Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Hutchison Hall Room 473 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
41 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: BIOL 278-1 (P), BIOL 478-1
Instructors: Dragony Fu
Description: This interactive course explores the molecular mechanisms of important cellular processes. Topics include DNA replication, RNA processing, translation, protein folding, protein degradation, protein transport and metabolism. Foundational experiments that have led to our current understanding of these processes will be explored through readings and discussions of original scientific papers. Co-registration in a 278 Recitation on Friday from 9:00-10:15 is required.

Prerequisites: BIO 190/198, BIO 250L, and CHM 204
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 390A-9 Supervised Teaching - BIOL 278 Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Dragony Fu
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 405-1 Evolution Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Gavett Hall Room 310 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
48 		Capacity     
48
Co-Located: BIOL 205-1 (P), BIOL 405-1
Instructors: James Fry
Description: History of evolutionary thought; genetics of populations; phylogenetic reconstruction; origin and history of life; evolution of social behavior and species interactions; mechanisms of speciation; human evolution. Students must also sign up for a recitation when registering for the lecture.

Prerequisites: A year of introductory biology and facility in precalculus mathematics.  BIO 190 or BIO 198 strongly recommended.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 419L-1 Genomics of Quant Traits W/LAB Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Meliora Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: BIOL 219L-1 (P), BIOL 419L-1
Instructors: Ryan Bickel
Description: Human body size, behavior and many diseases are quantitative traits; they vary continuously and are determined by a large number of genes. The study of quantitative traits can provide insights into the genes underlying disease and how species have evolved. This course will cover the identification and analysis of genes affecting quantitative traits and the evolutionary forces that influence genes and genomes in animal model systems. These studies are increasingly being used in humans and are the future of modern medicine. The lab component will provide students a hands-on introduction to the computational methods. Labs will be primarily conducted using R.

Prerequisites: BIO 190 OR 198, BIO 214 OR EQUIVALENT

Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 443-1 Eukaryotic Gene Regulation Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Dewey Room 2162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
67 		Capacity     
75
Co-Located: BIOL 243-1 (P), BIOL 443-1, IND 443-1
Instructors: Cheeptip Benyajati
Description: This advanced course examines mechanisms of chromatin-mediated regulation of the eukaryotic genomes, gene expression, relating molecular structures, dynamic interactions, nuclear processes, 3-D nuclear organization to biological functions. Topics include DNA structures, packaging and higher order chromatin organization in the nucleus, the transcription machinery, eukaryotic chromosome structure and its modifications, epigenetics and functional genomics, dynamics of nuclear processes, nuclear reprogramming, development and applications of genome manipulation technology. Lectures and readings draw heavily on primary literature both classic and most recent.

Prerequisites: BIO 198, Genetics, BIO 250/250H, Biochemistry; good knowledge of Molecular Biology. Cell Biology and/or Developmental Biology recommended.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 453L-1 Computational Bio With Laboratory Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Meliora Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
36 		Capacity     
60
Co-Located: BIOL 253L-1 (P), BIOL 453L-1
Instructors: Justin Fay
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 463-1 Ecology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Morey Room 321 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
60 		Capacity     
65
Co-Located: BIOL 263-1 (P), BIOL 463-1
Instructors: John Albert Uy
Description: A survey of adaptations to the physical environment, dynamics of natural populations, interactions between species, and ecosystem function.

Prerequisites: BIO 111 or 113 and MTH 142 or MTH 161
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 468-1 Lab in Molecular, Cell&Dev Bio Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1800 Hutchison Hall Room 217 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: BIOL 268-1 (P), BIOL 468-1
Instructors: Xin Bi
Description: This course is designed to provide (1) introduction to model organisms (2) training in specific methods used in molecular, cell and developmental biology research, with emphasis on data acquisition and analysis (3) experience in the design and execution of experiments, reading and writing scientific reports, and public scientific presentation.

Prerequisites: Completion of biology and chemistry core requirements, as well as BIO 198 or BIO 190 and BIO 250 required
Offered: Spring Summer
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BIOL 468-2 Lab in Molecular, Cell&Dev Bio Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1800 Hutchison Hall Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: BIOL 268-2 (P), BIOL 468-2
Instructors: Xin Bi
Description: This course is designed to provide (1) introduction to model organisms (2) training in specific methods used in molecular, cell and developmental biology research, with emphasis on data acquisition and analysis (3) experience in the design and execution of experiments, reading and writing scientific reports, and public scientific presentation.

Prerequisites: Completion of biology and chemistry core requirements, as well as BIO 198 or BIO 190 and BIO 250 required
Offered: Spring Summer
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BIOL 476-01 Advanced Ecology & Evolution Biology F Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Amanda Larracuente
Description: A six-course sequence that provides comprehensive coverage of advanced topics in ecology and evolutionary biology. Areas covered include: population and community ecology; population and quantitative genetics; molecular evolution; evolutionary genomics; evo-devo; phylogenetics; and speciation. This course is intended for graduate students; exceptional undergraduate students can enroll by permission of the course coordinator.
Offered: Spring
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BIOL 478-1 Biochem Mech of Cell Pro Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Hutchison Hall Room 473 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
40 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: BIOL 278-1 (P), BIOL 478-1
Instructors: Dragony Fu
Description: This interactive course explores the molecular mechanisms of important cellular processes. Topics include DNA replication, RNA processing, translation, protein folding, protein degradation, protein transport and metabolism. Foundational experiments that have led to our current understanding of these processes will be explored through readings and discussions of original scientific papers.

Prerequisites: BIO 190/198, BIO 250L, and CHM 204
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 480-1 Graduate Lab Rotation Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Dragony Fu
Description: An introduction to research in the laboratories of individual faculty members.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 517-1 Graduate Research Seminar Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1200 1310 Hutchison Hall Room 473 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
28 		Capacity     
48
Instructors: Dragony Fu
Description: Ph.D. students prepare and present their research findings to the Department. This course carries one credit.
Offered: Fall Spring
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BIOL 580-1 Journal Club in Evol., Ecol., Genetics & Genomics Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1105 1220 Hutchison Hall Room 316 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
35
Instructors: John Werren; H Orr
Description: Current topics in ecology and evolutionary biology are explored by reading research and review papers. Students choose topics for reading and lead discussions of their chosen topics. This course carries one credit.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BIOL 584-1 Seminar in Evolution, Ecology, Genetics & Genomics Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1445 1600 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Robert Minckley
Description: Biology Colloquium. Members of the staff and advanced students in the biological sciences meet on regularly announced dates for presentation and discussion of research by members of the department or invited guests. These seminars are open to all.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Biomedical Engineering
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BME 210-1 Biosystems & Circuits Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1025 1115 Meliora Room 221 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
69 		Capacity     
85
Instructors: Edmund Lalor
Description: Introduction to electrical circuit theory. Examples will include bioelectric systems and signals and models of biological systems. MUST REGISTER FOR LAB WHEN REGISTERING FOR MAIN COURSE. Prerequisites: PHYS 122, MATH 162, BME 201P, MATH 165 may be a co-requisite.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BME 212-1 Visco in Bio Tissues Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Hylan Building Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: BME 212-1 (P), BME 412-1, ME 212-1, ME 412-1, MSC 486-1
Instructors: Mark Buckley
Description: Viscoelastic materials have the capacity to both store and dissipate energy. As a result, properly describing their mechanical behavior lies outside the scope of both solid mechanics and fluid mechanics. This course will develop constitutive relations and strategies for solving boundary value problems in linear viscoelastic materials. In addition, the closely-related biphasic theory for fluid-filled porous solids will be introduced. An emphasis will be placed on applications to cartilage, tendon, ligament, muscle, blood vessels, and other biological tissues. Advanced topics including non-linear viscoelasticity, composite viscoelasticity and physical mechanisms of viscoelasticity will be surveyed. Prerequisites: ME225 or CHE243; ME226 or BME201
Offered: Spring
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BME 216-1 Speech on the Brain Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Bausch & Lomb Room 270 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
26 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: BCSC 266-1 (P), BME 216-1, BME 416-1, LING 216-1, LING 416-1
Instructors: Laurel Carney
Description: The focus of this course is on neural representations of speech sounds; introduction to basics of speech phonetics and responses from the auditory nerve through the brainstem, midbrain, and cortex; techniques for analyzing speech and neural responses. Students from BME, LING, BCSC, NSCI and other programs will work in interdisciplinary teams on a final project.
Offered: Spring
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BME 221-1 Biomedical Computation & Statistics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1300 1350 Computer Studies Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
54 		Capacity     
65
Instructors: Regine Choe
Description: The application of numerical and statistical methods to model biological systems and interpret biological data, using the MATLAB programming language. Prerequisites: BME201, BME201P or permission of instructor.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BME 243-1 Finite Element Analysis & Principles of Scientific Animation for Bioengineers Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Morey Room 501 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Dean Johnson
Description: This course teaches the fundamentals and application of finite element analysis using COMSOL Multiphysics modeling software. The first half focuses on the basic principles of finite element analysis and some equations for basic physics problems, the second half teaches COMSOL modeling. At the end of the course, each student will give a 10 minute presentation of a model they have defined and analyzed using finite element analysis. 
Offered: Spring
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BME 245-1 Biomaterials Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Harkness Room 115 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
58 		Capacity     
70
Instructors: Kanika Vats
Description: This course provides a background in biomaterials: basic material properties, specifics on ceramics, polymers and metals used in the body, and special topics related to biomaterials including tissue engineering, biological responses to implanted materials, and drug delivery. You must register for a lab section (BME099) when registering for this course. BME099 will be a shared lab time with BME221. If you are co-enrolled in BME245 and BME221, please register for only one section of BME099.4 credits. Prerequisites: CHEM131, CHEM132, PHYS121, PHYS122, MATH161, MATH162, Biomechanics and BIOL110 or Permission of Instructor.
Offered: Spring
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BME 258-1 Human Anatomy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 S & Gg Wing/smd Room 37619 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
104 		Capacity     
120
Co-Located: BME 258-1 (P), BME 459-1
Instructors: Martha Gdowski
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course analyzes the structural composition of the human body from cellular to organ system levels. The goal is to provide a foundation in human anatomy appropriate for students interested in the bioscience and health care professions (e.g. nursing, physical therapy, medicine, bioengineering). Learning objectives will be achieved through a combination of lecture and hands-on (laboratory) approaches, reinforced by clinical examples. Students MUST REGISTER for BOTH the Lecture and Lab components of the course. Prerequisites: BIOL110 or equivalent. Not open to First Year students.
Offered: Spring
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BME 262-1 Cell & Tissue Engineering Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Bausch & Lomb Room 269 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: BME 262-1 (P), BME 462-1, CHE 262-1, CHE 462-1, MSC 462-1
Instructors: Hani Awad; Ruth Herrera Perez
Description: This course teaches the principles of modern cell and tissue engineering with a focus on understanding and manipulating the interactions between cells and their environment. After a brief overview of Cell and Tissue Engineering, the course covers 5 areas of the field. These are: 1) Physiology for Tissue Engineering; 2) Bioreactors and Biomolecule Production; 3) Materials for Tissue Engineering; 4) Cell Cultures and Bioreactors and 5) Drug Delivery and Drug Discovery. Within each of these topics the emphasis is on analytical skills and instructors will assume knowledge of chemistry, mass transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and physiology consistent with the Cell and Tissue Engineering Track in BME. In a term project, students must present written and oral reports on a developing or existing application of Cell and Tissue Engineering. The reports must address the technology behind the application, the clinical need and any ethical implications. YOUR MUST REGISTER FOR A RECITATION AND A LAB WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN COURSE. Prerequisites: BME260, CHE225 (OR ME123) CHE244 and one of the following Cell Biology courses: BME211, BME411, BIOL202, BIOL210 or Permission of Instructor.
Offered: Spring
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BME 270-1 Biomedical Microscopy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Hylan Building Room 306 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Edward Brown
Description: This course covers the principles and practice of light microscopy as applied to biological and medical questions. Topics include basic light microscopy, DIC, phase epifluorescence, confocal and multiphoton laser-scanning microscopy, and selected methods such as CARS, FRET, FRAP, FCS, etc. Prerequisites: PHYS122 or permission of instructor.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BME 272-1 Advanced Biomedical Microscopy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Goergen Hall Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: BME 272-1 (P), BME 472-1, OPT 272-1, OPT 472-1
Instructors: Michael Giacomelli
Description: This course will review the engineering of optical system for biomedical microscopy by exploring widely used biomedical imaging systems such as confocal microscopy, multiphoton microscopy and optical coherent tomography among others. These techniques will be introduced in the context of the imaging problems they solve with a goal of giving students a broad, undergraduate level understanding of the constraints and solutions to biomedical microscopy. The graduate version of this course will include additional assignments and be appropriate for graduate students starting out in biomedical optics. Prerequisites: OPT261 and BME270 or permission of instructor.
Offered: Spring
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BME 296-1 BME Design Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Bausch & Lomb Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
52 		Capacity     
60
Instructors: Scott Seidman
Description: Senior capstone design course in the Biomedical Engineering Program. Students work in teams to design, build, and test a medical device or instrument for a faculty, community or industrial sponsor. Accompanying lectures and discussions introduce issues related to ethics, economics, project management, regulation, safety, and reliability. Students will work in teams to design, build and test a prototype medical device, and document their activities through a variety of reports and presentations. Prerequisites: Math, science, and engineering courses appropriate for 4th-year students in BME; BME295, BME260. Open ONLY to BME Senior majors or Permission of Instructor.
Offered: Spring
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BME 404-1 Computational Methods Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Wegmans Room 1005 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: BME 404-1, ME 404-1 (P)
Instructors: Jong-Hoon Nam
Description: The course deals with computational methods to analytically intractable mathematical problems in biological research. For the first half of the course, general numerical analysis topics are reviewed such as linear algebra, ODE and PDE. Through homework assignments, students write their own computer code. Sufficient sample solutions are given to practice various numerical methods within limited time. The rest of the course is comprised of case studies and projects. Examples of computational analyses are drawn from life science problems such as biodynamics of human loco motion, ion channel kinetics, ionic diffusion, and finite element analysis of cells/tissues. For final project, students bring their own research problems, express them in mathematical equations, solve them using custom written computer programs and interpret the solutions. Prerequisites: Fundamental linear algebra, ordinary differential equations, some experience with MatLAB.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BME 412-1 Visco in Bio Tissues Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Hylan Building Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: BME 212-1 (P), BME 412-1, ME 212-1, ME 412-1, MSC 486-1
Instructors: Mark Buckley
Description: Viscoelastic materials have the capacity to both store and dissipate energy. As a result, properly describing their mechanical behavior lies outside the scope of both solid mechanics and fluid mechanics. This course will develop constitutive relations and strategies for solving boundary value problems in linear viscoelastic materials. In addition, the closely-related biphasic theory for fluid-filled porous solids will be introduced. An emphasis will be placed on applications to cartilage, tendon, ligament, muscle, blood vessels, and other biological tissues. Advanced topics including non-linear viscoelasticity, composite viscoelasticity and physical mechanisms of viscoelasticity will be surveyed. Preerequisites: ME225 or CHE243; ME226 or BME201
Offered: Spring
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BME 413-1 Selected Topics in Augmented and Virtual Reality Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Todd Union Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
0
Co-Located: BCSC 571-1, BME 413-1, CSC 414-1, CVSC 535-1, ECE 411-1 (P), NSCI 416-1, OPT 438-1
Instructors: Mujdat Cetin; Chenliang Xu; Ross Maddox
Restrictions: Instructor permission required for Undergraduates - AS&E
Description:
This is the second course offered as part of the PhD training program on augmented and virtual reality. It builds on the first course, Introduction to Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR). The goal of the course is to provide exposure to problems in the AR/VR domain addressed by various disciplines. The course consists of three one-month long modules in a semester. Modules engage students in particular aspects of AR/VR or hands-on experience on AR/VR. Modules to be offered in various years include: fundamentals of optics for AR/VR; AR/VR in the silicon; foundations of visual perception in the context of AR/VR; computer audition and acoustic rendering; measuring the human brain; deep learning and visual recognition for AR/VR; brain-computer interfacing in a virtual environment; 3D interfaces and interaction; AR/VR for collaborative education & professional training. In Spring 2023, the following three modules will be offered: 1) Deep learning and visual recognition for AR/VR. (Prof. Chenliang Xu) Recent developments in deep learning have significantly advanced state-of-the-art visual recognition in problems such as object detection, activity recognition, and semantic segmentation. In this module, students will learn core concepts in deep learning, including convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks. They will receive hands-on experience using popular deep-learning libraries like PyTorch to build visual recognition algorithms for AR/VR systems. 2) Measuring the human brain. (Prof. Ross Maddox) This module will introduce students to studies of human brain function using non-invasive methods. It will focus on experimental paradigms and data analysis in the time and frequency domains. Neural encoding and decoding models and applications to brain-computer interfaces will also be discussed. The module will have a mixed format, with lectures and labs. Lab exercises will be based on analyzing real data from human subjects. 3) Professional encounters with leading AR/VR researchers. This module will involve a series of seminars and discussion sessions with leading AR/VR researchers from academia and industry. Prerequisites: ECE 410 or OPT 410 or BME 410 or NSCI 415 or CSC 413 or CVSC 534
INSTRUCTORS: Chenliang Xu; Ross Maddox; Mujdat Cetin
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
BME 415-1 Neuroscience of Neuroprosthetics Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1400 1450 Morey Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: BME 415-1 (P), NSC 415-1
Instructors: Sarah McConnell
Description: This class examines the structure, function, and vulnerability of the visual, auditory, vestibular, somatosensory, and motor systems, and explores how neuroprosthetics may ameliorate damage to these systems. Learning objectives will be addressed through lectures, journal article discussions, online discussions, case studies, and student presentations. Prior study in neuroscience is helpful but not required. Prerequisites: Any introductory Biology course. Undergraduates allowed with permission of instructor.
Offered: Spring
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BME 416-1 Speech on the Brain Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Bausch & Lomb Room 270 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
26 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: BCSC 266-1 (P), BME 216-1, BME 416-1, LING 216-1, LING 416-1
Instructors: Laurel Carney
Description: The focus of this course is on neural representations of speech sounds; introduction to basics of speech phonetics and responses from the auditory nerve through the brainstem, midbrain, and cortex; techniques for analyzing speech and neural responses. Students from BME, LING, BCSC, NSCI and other programs will work in interdisciplinary teams on a final project.
Offered: Spring
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BME 432-1 FDA & IP Commercialization Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1525 1640 Helen Wood Hall Room 1W501 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Joan Adamo
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: This interactive course focuses on Intellectual Property (IP) and FDA regulatory pathways for medical innovations. Emphasis will be placed on how knowledge of IP protection and evaluation, and regulatory barriers can optimize design, testing and commercialization strategies. Building on BME431 material, students will learn about the processes and barriers to bringing medical products through clinical trials. Instruction will include lectures, case studies, guest speakers and integrated assignments that will ask students to explore examples of IP and regulatory challenges, successes and failures. Lectures on regulatory and IP topics will alternate so students can appreciate the difficulty presented by balancing these two challenges in the innovation process. Some assignments may be tailored to individual student's research, design or work concentration areas. A project conducted in partnership with the FDA will provide students an opportunity to submit a mock pre-submission to the FDA for review and feedback.
Offered: Spring
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BME 438-3 Intro to Quality Engineering Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Dewey Room 2110E 01/11/2023 03/15/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: BME 438-3 (P), ME 438-3
Instructors: Amy Lerner
Description: Concepts, tools and techniques for quality engineering in product design and statistical process control, including design of experiments, RCA, FMEA and measurement systems. Class meets January 11 - March 15, 2023. Prerequisite: Basic understanding of statistical methods.

Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BME 459-1 Applied Human Anatomy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 S & Gg Wing/smd Room 37619 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
104 		Capacity     
120
Co-Located: BME 258-1 (P), BME 459-1
Instructors: Martha Gdowski
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course analyzes the structural composition of the human body from cellular to organ levels. The goal is to provide a foundation in human anatomy appropriate for students interested in the bioscience and health care professions (e.g. nursing, physical therapy, medicine, bioengineering). Learning objectives will be achieved through a combination of lecture and hands-on (laboratory) approaches, reinforced by clinical examples and analysis of how biomedical devices interface with anatomical structures. In addition, students will participate in small group discussions of clinical case studies, make group presentations of topic appropriate biomedical devices, and prepare a term paper on the subject of their choice selected from a list of topics generated by the instructor. Prerequisite: Any introductory biology course.
Offered: Spring
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BME 462-1 Cell & Tissue Engineering Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Bausch & Lomb Room 269 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: BME 262-1 (P), BME 462-1, CHE 262-1, CHE 462-1, MSC 462-1
Instructors: Hani Awad
Description: This course teaches the principles of modern cell and tissue engineering with a focus on understanding and manipulating the interactions between cells and their environment. After a brief overview of Cell and Tissue Engineering, the course covers 5 areas of the field. These are: 1) Physiology for Tissue Engineering; 2) Bioreactors and biomolecule production; 3) Materials for Tissue Engineering; 4) Cell Cultures and bioreactors and 5) Drug Delivery and Drug Discovery. Within each of these topics the emphasis is on analytical skills and instructors will assume knowledge of chemistry, mass transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and physiology consistent with the Cell and Tissue Engineering Track in BME. In a term project, graduate students must identify a technological need and present orally and in writing a proposal to meet the need. Must register for LAB and REC when registering for course. Prerequisites: BME 260, CHE225 (or ME123), CHE243 (or ME225), CHE244 and one of the following Cell Biology courses: BME211, BME411, BIO202 or BIO210; or permission of instructor.
Offered: Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
BME 472-1 Advanced Biomedical Microscopy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Goergen Hall Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: BME 272-1 (P), BME 472-1, OPT 272-1, OPT 472-1
Instructors: Michael Giacomelli
Description: This course will review the engineering of optical system for biomedical microscopy by exploring widely used biomedical imaging systems such as confocal microscopy, multiphoton microscopy and optical coherent tomography among others. These techniques will be introduced in the context of the imaging problems they solve with a goal of giving students a broad, undergraduate level understanding of the constraints and solutions to biomedical microscopy. The graduate version of this course will include additional assignments and be appropriate for graduate students starting out inbiomedical optics. Prerequisites: OPT261 and BME270.
Offered: Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
BME 496-1 Current Research Seminars Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 815 930 Goergen Hall Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
97 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Stephen McAleavey
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
BME 589-1 Writing Proposals in BME Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1630 1730 Goergen Hall Room 239 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Anne Luebke; Benjamin Miller
Description: This course covers the essential aspects of organization and content for writing formal scientific proposals. Open to second-year Ph.D. candidates.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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BME 593-1 Laboratory Rotations in BME Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Diane Dalecki
Description: Attend seminars first half of the semester and then students rotate in at least 3 different labs during the first year of graduate study to learn of the diversity of research opportunities for Ph.D. research.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering College of Arts & Science
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 010-1 Writing Workshop Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 900 1015 Wegmans Room 1009 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Ali Safivand
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Writing Workshop offers practice and instruction with current student writing projects. Students meet weekly with their instructor to work different forms of academic writing relevant to their spring coursework–writings may include summaries, critical responses, argumentative essays, and lab reports. Students may also choose to revise writings completed in previous semesters or work on other writing projects such as school, internship, or job applications.

Prerequisites:  TUP Program permission required.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 010-2 Writing Workshop Spring 2023 Lecture Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1025 1140 Wegmans Room 1009 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
7
Instructors: Ali Safivand
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Writing Workshop offers practice and instruction with current student writing projects. Students meet weekly with their instructor to work different forms of academic writing relevant to their spring coursework–writings may include summaries, critical responses, argumentative essays, and lab reports. Students may also choose to revise writings completed in previous semesters or work on other writing projects such as school, internship, or job applications.

Prerequisites:  TUP Program permission required.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 010-3 Writing Workshop Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1230 1345 Dewey Room 4162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
7
Instructors: Ali Safivand
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Writing Workshop offers practice and instruction with current student writing projects. Students meet weekly with their instructor to work different forms of academic writing relevant to their spring coursework–writings may include summaries, critical responses, argumentative essays, and lab reports. Students may also choose to revise writings completed in previous semesters or work on other writing projects such as school, internship, or job applications.

Prerequisites:  TUP Program permission required.
Offered: Fall Spring
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CASC 010-4 Writing Workshop Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1515 Genesee Hall Room 321 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
7
Instructors: Ali Safivand
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Writing Workshop offers practice and instruction with current student writing projects. Students meet weekly with their instructor to work different forms of academic writing relevant to their spring coursework–writings may include summaries, critical responses, argumentative essays, and lab reports. Students may also choose to revise writings completed in previous semesters or work on other writing projects such as school, internship, or job applications.

Prerequisites:  TUP Program permission required.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 016-1 Communication Workshop II Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 900 1015 Lechase Room 124 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Ali Safivand
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Communication Workshop II offers continued practice and instruction with a variety of academic and professional forms of spoken communication such as practice with group discussion, interviews, meeting with instructors, and other campus community interactions that students may encounter.

Prerequisites:  TUP Program permission required.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 016-2 Communication Workshop II Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1025 1140 Lechase Room 124 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Ali Safivand
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Communication Workshop II offers continued practice and instruction with a variety of academic and professional forms of spoken communication such as practice with group discussion, interviews, meeting with instructors, and other campus community interactions that students may encounter.

Prerequisites:  TUP Program permission required.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 016-3 Communication Workshop II Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1230 1345 Lechase Room 124 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Ali Safivand
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Communication Workshop II offers continued practice and instruction with a variety of academic and professional forms of spoken communication such as practice with group discussion, interviews, meeting with instructors, and other campus community interactions that students may encounter.

Prerequisites:  TUP Program permission required.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 016-4 Communication Workshop II Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1400 1515 Lechase Room 124 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Ali Safivand
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Communication Workshop II offers continued practice and instruction with a variety of academic and professional forms of spoken communication such as practice with group discussion, interviews, meeting with instructors, and other campus community interactions that students may encounter.

Prerequisites:  TUP Program permission required.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 104-10 Designing Your Life-Engineering Edition Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1400 1515 Rush Rhees Library Room G108A 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Cathy Caiazza
Description: Considering a career in engineering? Unsure of all the options possible with an engineering degree? No matter what stage you are at or what interests you have, CASC 104 shows you all the exploratory tools available at Rochester, and teaches you how to make use of them to test out your interests and meet your aspirations! Join career center advisors in this fun and relaxed eight-week course that can be applied to your academics, career and many other aspects of your life. Open to all class years.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 104-11 Designing Your Life Spring 2023 1.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1025 1140 Rush Rhees Library Room G108A 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Alison Albright
Description: Don’t know what you want to do with your life? Or maybe you do but don’t know how to get there? No matter what stage you are at or what interests you have, CASC 104 shows you all the exploratory tools available at Rochester, and teaches you how to make use of them to test out your interests and meet your aspirations! Join career center advisors in this fun and relaxed eight-week course that can be applied to your academics, career and many other aspects of your life. Open to all class years.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 104-2 Designing Your Life Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 940 1055 Rush Rhees Library Room G108A 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Kellie Hernandez
Description: Don’t know what you want to do with your life? Or maybe you do but don’t know how to get there? No matter what stage you are at or what interests you have, CASC 104 shows you all the exploratory tools available at Rochester, and teaches you how to make use of them to test out your interests and meet your aspirations! Join career center advisors in this fun and relaxed eight-week course that can be applied to your academics, career and many other aspects of your life. Open to all class years.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 104-3 Designing Your Life Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1230 1345 Rush Rhees Library Room G108A 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Kellie Hernandez
Description: Don’t know what you want to do with your life? Or maybe you do but don’t know how to get there? No matter what stage you are at or what interests you have, CASC 104 shows you all the exploratory tools available at Rochester, and teaches you how to make use of them to test out your interests and meet your aspirations! Join career center advisors in this fun and relaxed eight-week course that can be applied to your academics, career and many other aspects of your life. Open to all class years.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 104-4 Designing Your Life Spring 2023 1.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1230 1345 Rush Rhees Library Room G108A 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Kellie Hernandez
Description: Don’t know what you want to do with your life? Or maybe you do but don’t know how to get there? No matter what stage you are at or what interests you have, CASC 104 shows you all the exploratory tools available at Rochester, and teaches you how to make use of them to test out your interests and meet your aspirations! Join career center advisors in this fun and relaxed eight-week course that can be applied to your academics, career and many other aspects of your life. Open to all class years.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 104-5 Designing Your Life Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1650 1805 Rush Rhees Library Room G108A 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Stacey Fisher
Description: Don’t know what you want to do with your life? Or maybe you do but don’t know how to get there? No matter what stage you are at or what interests you have, CASC 104 shows you all the exploratory tools available at Rochester, and teaches you how to make use of them to test out your interests and meet your aspirations! Join career center advisors in this fun and relaxed eight-week course that can be applied to your academics, career and many other aspects of your life. Open to all class years.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CASC 104-6 Designing Your Life-Health Professions Edition Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 900 1015 Rush Rhees Library Room G108A 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Jonathan Bratt
Description: Considering a life or career in the health professions? Unsure of all the possibilities in the healthcare field or how to get there? No matter what stage you are at or what interests you have, CASC 104 shows you all the exploratory tools available at Rochester, and teaches you how to make use of them to test out your interests and meet your aspirations! Join career center advisors in this fun and relaxed eight-week course that can be applied to your academics, career and many other aspects of your life. Open to all class years.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 104-8 Designing Your Life Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1525 1640 Rush Rhees Library Room G108A 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Elizabeth Daniele
Description: Don’t know what you want to do with your life? Or maybe you do but don’t know how to get there? No matter what stage you are at or what interests you have, CASC 104 shows you all the exploratory tools available at Rochester, and teaches you how to make use of them to test out your interests and meet your aspirations! Join career center advisors in this fun and relaxed eight-week course that can be applied to your academics, career and many other aspects of your life. Open to all class years.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 104-9 Designing Your Life-Engineering Edition Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1150 1305 Rush Rhees Library Room G108A 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Cathy Caiazza
Description: Considering a career in engineering? Unsure of all the options possible with an engineering degree? No matter what stage you are at or what interests you have, CASC 104 shows you all the exploratory tools available at Rochester, and teaches you how to make use of them to test out your interests and meet your aspirations! Join career center advisors in this fun and relaxed eight-week course that can be applied to your academics, career and many other aspects of your life. Open to all class years.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 109-1 Intensive Academic Writ Semr Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 900 1015 Dewey Room 4162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
19
Instructors: George McCormick
Description: This intensive writing course is restricted to McNair Scholars only. In this course you will develop analytical and communicative skills at the level of sophistication necessary for writing in academic settings. The course includes a wide variety of readings, focuses on persuasion and argumentation, and expands upon students’ written communication skills to prepare for graduate school and the writing section of the GRE.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CASC 142-1 Methods of Inquiry Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1650 1805 Meliora Room 206 01/23/2023 04/03/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Siladitya Khan
Description: Workshop-style course will help you establish good study habits and hone your study skills. It is designed to help you sharpen your time management, note-taking, exam-preparation, and other skills and strategies, as well as work on increasing motivation and dealing with stress, so that you get the most out of your college career.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CASC 142-2 Methods of Inquiry Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1650 1805 Meliora Room 209 01/26/2023 04/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Debamitra Chakraborty
Description: Workshop-style course will help you establish good study habits and hone your study skills. It is designed to help you sharpen your time management, note-taking, exam-preparation, and other skills and strategies, as well as work on increasing motivation and dealing with stress, so that you get the most out of your college career.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CASC 142-3 Methods of Inquiry Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1400 1515 Lechase Room 160 01/20/2023 03/31/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Aditya Dey
Description: Workshop-style course will help you establish good study habits and hone your study skills. It is designed to help you sharpen your time management, note-taking, exam-preparation, and other skills and strategies, as well as work on increasing motivation and dealing with stress, so that you get the most out of your college career.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 145-1 Navigating the Academy Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1525 1640 Hylan Building Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
29 		Capacity     
40
Instructors: Melissa Raucci
Description: This is a course for students interested in becoming Kearns Scholars and explores the shared individual and group narratives of its participants, primarily focusing on the first year of college. The course will function as a way for students to identify resources and crucial issues that impact their lives here at the University of Rochester specifically, and in higher education generally. Through readings, guest speakers, small and large group discussions, and informal in-class writing assignments, students will increase their understanding of how to make the most of their college experience.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CASC 145-2 Navigating the Academy Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1525 1640 Morey Room 525 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
40
Instructors: Melissa Raucci
Description: This is a course for students interested in becoming Kearns Scholars and explores the shared individual and group narratives of its participants, primarily focusing on the first year of college. The course will function as a way for students to identify resources and crucial issues that impact their lives here at the University of Rochester specifically, and in higher education generally. Through readings, guest speakers, small and large group discussions, and informal in-class writing assignments, students will increase their understanding of how to make the most of their college experience.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 145-3 Navigating the Academy Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1525 1640 Hylan Building Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
40
Instructors: Melissa Raucci
Description: This is a course for students interested in becoming Kearns Scholars and explores the shared individual and group narratives of its participants, primarily focusing on the first year of college. The course will function as a way for students to identify resources and crucial issues that impact their lives here at the University of Rochester specifically, and in higher education generally. Through readings, guest speakers, small and large group discussions, and informal in-class writing assignments, students will increase their understanding of how to make the most of their college experience.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CASC 152-1 Bridging the Gap: Dialogue Across Difference Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1815 1945 Interfaith Chapel Room 200 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: CASC 152-1 (P), RELC 121-1
Instructors: Jessica Guzman-Rea; Denise Yarbrough
Description: There is no longer any doubt that we are living in an increasingly polarized world, where civil discourse gives way to invective. The fault lines of race, faith, and politics are exacerbated by a lack of understanding of how these identities become barriers to genuine conversation. Divisive sub-groups serve as echo chambers, cutting us off from talking across the divides.  

“The Bridging the Gap program is designed to combat the toxic polarization in our country, give students the skills they need to find common ground across deep divides, solve problems in their communities, thrive in the workplace of the future, and support students in their own character formation journey” (Interfaith America, 2022). Through these direct engagements and experiences, this community engaged course will teach students how to truly listen, understand, be heard, and seek common ground without attempting to change minds or having to compromise deeply held values. This course will give students the tools to find areas of common ground, live in constructive tension, understand our shared humanity and solve pressing problems with those of different backgrounds and beliefs. 

This course is designed to bring together students from culturally, theologically, politically, and racially diverse backgrounds to create a brave space for courageous conversations and to understand and explore solutions to one of America’s most pressing social problems: The call to defund the police: redefining “public safety” and what police reform might look like as America continues to wrestle with structural racism. This course will offer classroom learning on dialogue skills across political, cultural, and experiential differences, with intensive skill building sessions to practice these dialogue skills during a mandatory weekend retreat from January 13-15, and site visits with a broad range of police and public safety and stakeholders from our campus, the City of Rochester, and the State of New York.  
Offered: Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 161-1 Building Impactful Ideas Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Rush Rhees Library Room G108A 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Zoe Wisbey
Description: In this creative, high-energy course you’ll be working directly with community partners in the City of Rochester to create solutions to pressing local problems. You and your team will use Design Thinking (a human-centered innovation methodology used by Fortune 500 companies, NGOs, and governments) to identify a community need, brainstorm impactful ideas, and create a working model of a solution. You’ll immediately be able to deploy your new problem-solving tools to help you tackle whatever challenges you face on campus, in your communities, and in the world. At the end of the course you’ll receive your certificate in Design Thinking to distinguish you to future employers and collaborators.
Offered: Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 170-1 Int'l Student Success Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1525 1640 Frederick Douglass Room 404 01/18/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Molly Murray; Carmona Ross-Asare
Restrictions: Open to First Year Students Only AS&E
Description: Through this course students will explore campus, community and American culture, enhance their intercultural competence, and build academic skills to improve their success in the American classroom. Students will compare cultures through a variety of readings, in class discussions, journals and outside class activities. Topics include verbal and non-verbal communication, education systems, ethics, relationships, perception, beliefs, values and norms. This course is open to first-year students, as well as new transfer students with instructor permission.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 202-1 Intro to Com-Engaged Schlshp Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1525 1640 Lechase Room 163 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Lauren Caruso; Andrew Thomas
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course examines the theory, practice, and ethics of community-engaged learning through readings, case studies, site visits, and guest lectures from faculty and practitioners. The course examines the field of engaged learning, highlights local community-university relationships and projects, and utilizes critical reflection methods to enhance learning and impact. This course is the first of two seminars designed for students interested in pursuing the Certificate in Community-Engaged Learning.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 206B-1 Advanced Seminar B Cel Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1525 1615 Rush Rhees Library Room G108A 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Lauren Caruso; Andrew Thomas
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 303-1 EcoReps: Intro Leadership & Sustainability Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1835 1925 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
26 		Capacity     
40
Instructors: Karen Berger
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This two credit seminar teaches EcoReps about sustainability and covers many topics including recycling, energy, and climate change.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 312-1 Supportive Practices Peer Ed Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1025 1115 Genesee Hall Room 309 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
22
Instructors: Robin Frye
Description: This course is required for all new Tutors. Participating students are provided with research-based guidance about successful peer instruction, including a survey of the fundamental principles in peer education. Tutors will learn how to use CETL's online scheduling system, connect with students in their near-peer leadership role, offer feedback and advice in a non-judgmental way, and engage students in productive self-management strategies. There are no prerequisites for this course, though permission from the instructors is required to enroll.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 312-2 Supportive Practices Peer Ed Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1400 1450 Genesee Hall Room 309 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Robin Frye
Description: This course is required for all new Tutors. Participating students are provided with research-based guidance about successful peer instruction, including a survey of the fundamental principles in peer education. Tutors will learn how to use CETL's online scheduling system, connect with students in their near-peer leadership role, offer feedback and advice in a non-judgmental way, and engage students in productive self-management strategies. There are no prerequisites for this course, though permission from the instructors is required to enroll.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 319-1 Study Zone Leader Training Spring 2023 1.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1300 1350 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
8
Instructors: Kyle Trenshaw
Description: THIS COURSE IS A CO-REQUISITE FOR SERVING AS A STUDY ZONE LEADER AND PROVIDES TRAINING IN PEER EDUCATION, GOAL SETTING, TIME MANAGEMENT, AND MAXIMIZING CAMPUS RESOURCES.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 319-2 Study Zone Leader Training Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
12
Description: THIS COURSE IS A CO-REQUISITE FOR SERVING AS A STUDY ZONE LEADER AND PROVIDES TRAINING IN PEER EDUCATION, GOAL SETTING, TIME MANAGEMENT, AND MAXIMIZING CAMPUS RESOURCES.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 351-1 Leadership in the College Community I Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1430 1630 Gilbert Hall Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Edward Feldman
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Open by application only. This class is a requirement for Resident Advisor (RA) selection. Students wishing to participate in RA selection must apply in late October, and interview for a space in the class.The class explores important issues including: peer leadership, communication, diversity, and community development which are essential to the RA position.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 351-2 Leadership in the College Community I Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1430 1630 Susan B Anthony Room 164 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Michael Pettinato
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Open by application only. This class is a requirement for Resident Advisor (RA) selection. Students wishing to participate in RA selection must apply in late October, and interview for a space in the class.The class explores important issues including: peer leadership, communication, diversity, and community development which are essential to the RA position.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 351-3 Leadership in the College Community I Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Juliane Schnibbe
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Open by application only. This class is a requirement for Resident Advisor (RA) selection. Students wishing to participate in RA selection must apply in late October, and interview for a space in the class.The class explores important issues including: peer leadership, communication, diversity, and community development which are essential to the RA position.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 351-4 Leadership in the College Community I Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1200 1400 Gilbert Hall Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Kelly Kessler; Mike Droel
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Open by application only. This class is a requirement for Resident Advisor (RA) selection. Students wishing to participate in RA selection must apply in late October, and interview for a space in the class.The class explores important issues including: peer leadership, communication, diversity, and community development which are essential to the RA position.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 351-5 Leadership in the College Community I Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1200 1400 Susan B Anthony Room 164 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Ashlan Hudson
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Open by application only. This class is a requirement for Resident Advisor (RA) selection. Students wishing to participate in RA selection must apply in late October, and interview for a space in the class.The class explores important issues including: peer leadership, communication, diversity, and community development which are essential to the RA position.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 352-01 Workshop Leader 1 CSC 172 Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1150 1305 Wegmans Room 1009 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
14
Co-Located: CASC 352-01 (P), CASC 353-3, CASC 354-04, CASC 355-05
Instructors: Robin Frye
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 352-10 Workshop Leader 1 LING 224 Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1525 1640 Dewey Room 1160B 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: CASC 352-10 (P), CASC 353-12, CASC 354-16, CASC 355-11
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 352-11 Workshop Leader 1 LING 110 Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: CASC 352-11 (P), CASC 353-11, CASC 354-11, CASC 355-12
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 352-12 Workshop Leader 1 LING 220 Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: CASC 352-12 (P), CASC 353-13, CASC 354-10, CASC 355-10
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 352-13 Workshop Leader 1 Chem 204 Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1400 1530 Computer Studies Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: CASC 352-13 (P), CASC 353-10, CASC 354-13, CASC 355-15
Instructors: Kyle Trenshaw
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 352-14 Workshop Leader 1 Chem 172 Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1200 1400 Dewey Room 1160A 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Kyle Trenshaw
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 352-15 Workshop Leader 1 ECE 113 Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CASC 352-15 (P), CASC 353-16, CASC 354-14, CASC 355-14
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 352-16 Workshop Leader 1 PHIL 110 Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1330 1500 Dewey Room 1160B 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: CASC 352-16 (P), CASC 353-14, CASC 354-12, CASC 355-13
Instructors: Robin Frye
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 352-17 Workshop Ldr 1 Bio 110 (MC) Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1600 Dewey Room 1160N 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: CASC 352-17 (P), CASC 353-17, CASC 354-18, CASC 355-20
Instructors: Kyle Trenshaw
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 352-21 Workshop Leader 1 CSC 171 Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1515 Dewey Room 1160B 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CASC 352-21 (P), CASC 353-21, CASC 354-21, CASC 355-21
Instructors: Robin Frye
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 352-22 Workshop Leader 1 Chem 210 Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CASC 352-22 (P), CASC 353-22, CASC 354-22, CASC 355-22
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 352-4 Workshop Leader 1 CSC 161 Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1150 1305 Lechase Room 161 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CASC 352-4 (P), CASC 353-4, CASC 354-6, CASC 355-4
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 352-6 Workshop Leader 1 Chem 132 Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1400 1530 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: CASC 352-6 (P), CASC 353-2, CASC 354-2, CASC 355-2
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 353-10 Workshop Leader 2 Chem 204 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1400 1530 Computer Studies Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: CASC 352-13 (P), CASC 353-10, CASC 354-13, CASC 355-15
Instructors: Kyle Trenshaw
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 353-11 Workshop Leader 2 LING 110 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: CASC 352-11 (P), CASC 353-11, CASC 354-11, CASC 355-12
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 353-12 Workshop Leader 2 LING 224 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1525 1640 Dewey Room 1160B 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: CASC 352-10 (P), CASC 353-12, CASC 354-16, CASC 355-11
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 353-13 Workshop Leader 2 LING 220 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: CASC 352-12 (P), CASC 353-13, CASC 354-10, CASC 355-10
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 353-14 Workshop Leader 2 Phil 110 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1330 1500 Dewey Room 1160B 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: CASC 352-16 (P), CASC 353-14, CASC 354-12, CASC 355-13
Instructors: Robin Frye
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 353-15 Workshop Leader 2 Chem 172 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1200 1400 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Kyle Trenshaw
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 353-16 Workshop Leader 2 ECE 113 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CASC 352-15 (P), CASC 353-16, CASC 354-14, CASC 355-14
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 353-17 Workshop Ldr 2 Bio 110 (MC) Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1600 Dewey Room 1160N 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: CASC 352-17 (P), CASC 353-17, CASC 354-18, CASC 355-20
Instructors: Kyle Trenshaw
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 353-2 Workshop Leader 2 Chem 132 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1400 1530 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: CASC 352-6 (P), CASC 353-2, CASC 354-2, CASC 355-2
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 353-21 Workshop Leader 2 CSC 171 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1515 Dewey Room 1160B 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CASC 352-21 (P), CASC 353-21, CASC 354-21, CASC 355-21
Instructors: Robin Frye
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 353-22 Workshop Leader 2 Chem 210 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CASC 352-22 (P), CASC 353-22, CASC 354-22, CASC 355-22
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 353-3 Workshop Leader 2 CSC 172 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1150 1305 Wegmans Room 1009 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
14
Co-Located: CASC 352-01 (P), CASC 353-3, CASC 354-04, CASC 355-05
Instructors: Robin Frye
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 353-4 Workshop Leader 2 CSC 161 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1150 1305 Lechase Room 161 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CASC 352-4 (P), CASC 353-4, CASC 354-6, CASC 355-4
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 354-04 Workshop Leader 3 CSC 172 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1150 1305 Wegmans Room 1009 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
14
Co-Located: CASC 352-01 (P), CASC 353-3, CASC 354-04, CASC 355-05
Instructors: Robin Frye
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CASC 354-10 Workshop Leader 3 LING 220 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: CASC 352-12 (P), CASC 353-13, CASC 354-10, CASC 355-10
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CASC 354-11 Workshop Leader 3 LING 110 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: CASC 352-11 (P), CASC 353-11, CASC 354-11, CASC 355-12
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CASC 354-12 Workshop Leader 3: PHIL 110 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1330 1500 Dewey Room 1160B 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: CASC 352-16 (P), CASC 353-14, CASC 354-12, CASC 355-13
Instructors: Robin Frye
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CASC 354-13 Workshop Leader 3 Chem 204 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1400 1530 Computer Studies Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: CASC 352-13 (P), CASC 353-10, CASC 354-13, CASC 355-15
Instructors: Kyle Trenshaw
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 354-14 Workshop Leader 3 ECE 113 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CASC 352-15 (P), CASC 353-16, CASC 354-14, CASC 355-14
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CASC 354-15 Workshop Leader 3 Chem 172 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1200 1400 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Kyle Trenshaw
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 354-16 Workshop Leader 3 LING 224 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1525 1640 Dewey Room 1160B 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: CASC 352-10 (P), CASC 353-12, CASC 354-16, CASC 355-11
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 354-18 Workshop Ldr 3 Bio 110 (MC) Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1600 Dewey Room 1160N 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: CASC 352-17 (P), CASC 353-17, CASC 354-18, CASC 355-20
Instructors: Kyle Trenshaw
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CASC 354-2 Workshop Leader 3 Chem 132 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1400 1530 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: CASC 352-6 (P), CASC 353-2, CASC 354-2, CASC 355-2
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 354-21 Workshop Leader 3 CSC 171 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1515 Dewey Room 1160B 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CASC 352-21 (P), CASC 353-21, CASC 354-21, CASC 355-21
Instructors: Robin Frye
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 354-22 Workshop Leader 3 Chem 210 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CASC 352-22 (P), CASC 353-22, CASC 354-22, CASC 355-22
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CASC 354-6 Workshop Leader 3 CSC 161 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1150 1305 Lechase Room 161 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CASC 352-4 (P), CASC 353-4, CASC 354-6, CASC 355-4
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 355-05 Workshop Leader 4 CSC 172 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1150 1305 Wegmans Room 1009 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
14
Co-Located: CASC 352-01 (P), CASC 353-3, CASC 354-04, CASC 355-05
Instructors: Robin Frye
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 355-10 Workshop Leader 4 LING 220 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: CASC 352-12 (P), CASC 353-13, CASC 354-10, CASC 355-10
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 355-11 Workshop Leader 4 LING 224 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1525 1640 Dewey Room 1160B 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: CASC 352-10 (P), CASC 353-12, CASC 354-16, CASC 355-11
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 355-12 Workshop Leader 4 LING 110 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: CASC 352-11 (P), CASC 353-11, CASC 354-11, CASC 355-12
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 355-13 Workshop Leader 4 Phil 110 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1330 1500 Dewey Room 1160B 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: CASC 352-16 (P), CASC 353-14, CASC 354-12, CASC 355-13
Instructors: Robin Frye
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 355-14 Workshop Leader 4 ECE 113 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CASC 352-15 (P), CASC 353-16, CASC 354-14, CASC 355-14
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 355-15 Workshop Leader 4 Chem 204 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1400 1530 Computer Studies Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: CASC 352-13 (P), CASC 353-10, CASC 354-13, CASC 355-15
Instructors: Kyle Trenshaw
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 355-16 Workshop Leader 4 Chem 172 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1200 1400 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Kyle Trenshaw
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 355-2 Workshop Leader 4 Chem 132 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1400 1530 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: CASC 352-6 (P), CASC 353-2, CASC 354-2, CASC 355-2
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 355-20 Workshop Ldr 4 Bio 110 (MC) Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1600 Dewey Room 1160N 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: CASC 352-17 (P), CASC 353-17, CASC 354-18, CASC 355-20
Instructors: Kyle Trenshaw
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 355-21 Workshop Leader 4 CSC 171 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1515 Dewey Room 1160B 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CASC 352-21 (P), CASC 353-21, CASC 354-21, CASC 355-21
Instructors: Robin Frye
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 355-22 Workshop Leader 4 Chem 210 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CASC 352-22 (P), CASC 353-22, CASC 354-22, CASC 355-22
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CASC 355-4 Workshop Leader 4 CSC 161 Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1150 1305 Lechase Room 161 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CASC 352-4 (P), CASC 353-4, CASC 354-6, CASC 355-4
Instructors: Maria Cecilia Barone
Description: This course surveys group dynamics, learning theory and pedagogy. The larger goals for this course are to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and workshop leaders, and to provide an environment for focused review of workshop modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 397-1 Senior Scholars Program Spring 2023 16.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
1
Instructors: Rachel O'Donnell
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Reserved for students who have applied to the Senior Scholars program and whose proposals have been approved. 
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CASC 397K-1 E5 Practicum Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
40
Instructors: David Mammano
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Religion & Classics - Classical Greek
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CGRK 102-1 New Testmnt-Class Grk II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Nicholas Gresens
Description: A continuation of CGRK 101.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CGRK 222-1 Herodotus Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lechase Room 184 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Cameron Hawkins
Description: This course offers students an opportunity to develop their skills as readers of Classical Greek by studying excerpts from the work of Herodotus — both the oldest piece of extended prose narrative to survive from the Ancient Greek world, and a text that became a model for later Greek authors interested in the systematic exploration of history. The course will focus heavily on translation, but it will also feature key works of modern scholarship designed to foster contemplation and discussion about both historiography in general and Herodotus’ approach to history in particular.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CGRK 392-1 Practicum Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Nicholas Gresens
Description: Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Modern Languages & Cultures - Chinese
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CHIN 102-1 Elementary Chinese II Spring 2023 6.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Frederick Douglass Room 404 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Ping Pian
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This 6-credit course is the continuation of Chinese 101. STUDENTS MUST TAKE RECITATION CHIN103-3. Knowledge of Pinyin is required. The focus continues to be on developing listening and speaking skills with an increasing emphasis on reading and writing in ideographic characters. It aims to build a vocabulary based on 500 characters.
Offered: Spring
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CHIN 102-2 Elementary Chinese II Spring 2023 6.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Frederick Douglass Room 404 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: GuoMing Tian
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This 6-credit course is the continuation of Chinese 101. STUDENTS MUST TAKE RECITATION CHIN102-4. Knowledge of Pinyin is required. The focus continues to be on developing listening and speaking skills with an increasing emphasis on reading and writing in ideographic characters. It aims to build a vocabulary based on 500 characters.
Offered: Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CHIN 152-1 Intermediate Chinese II Spring 2023 6.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Frederick Douglass Room 403 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Ping Pian
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Continuation of Chinese 151. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION CHIN152-4. Supplementary materials will include short selections from contemporary Chinese writings. Written compositions in Chinese are required. A study of modern colloquial and literary styles, drawn from contemporary writings, readings, and movies scripts in material of social and cultural interests. Basic grammar and syntax will be constantly reviewed. Special emphasis will be devoted to the expansion of reading vocabulary, sentence patterns, writing and oral skills.
Offered: Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CHIN 152-2 Intermediate Chinese II Spring 2023 6.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Frederick Douglass Room 420 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: GuoMing Tian
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Continuation of Chinese 151. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION CHIN152-3. Supplementary materials will include short selections from contemporary Chinese writings. Written compositions in Chinese are required. A study of modern colloquial and literary styles, drawn from contemporary writings, readings, and movies scripts in material of social and cultural interests. Basic grammar and syntax will be constantly reviewed. Special emphasis will be devoted to the expansion of reading vocabulary, sentence patterns, writing and oral skills.
Offered: Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CHIN 203-1 Adv Intermediate Chinese II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Frederick Douglass Room 403 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Ping Pian
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course covers various aspects of contemporary Chinese culture as found in magazines, journals, television, film and videos. Class taught in Chinese.
Offered: Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CHIN 206-2 Advanced Chinese II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1815 1930 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: GuoMing Tian
Description: Designed to further develop communicative proficiency using topics on China’s rapidly changing sociocultural landscape. Focus on reading, writing, and presenting in Chinese. Pre-requisite: CHIN 205.
Offered: Spring
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CHIN 222-1 Gender, Sexuality, and Desire in 20th century Chinese Literature Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Frederick Douglass Room 403 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: CHIN 222-1 (P), CLTR 224-1, GSWS 222-1
Instructors: Elizabeth Weber
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: In this course, we will be examining works of literature from China’s late nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries in order to better understand how conceptions, representations, and expressions of gender, sexuality, and desire changed during periods of drastic political and intellectual change. Our readings will include (but not necessarily be limited to) the following areas: risqué literature from the tail end of the Qing dynasty; modernist approaches to gender and heterosexual and same-sex desire in the May Fourth and early Republican periods; the ideological treatment of gender and sexuality during the high socialist period; and the reemergence of literary expressions of desire and gender identity in the post-Mao era and beyond.
Offered: Spring
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CHIN 274-2 Chinese Religions Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Meliora Room 218 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CHIN 274-2, RELC 174-2 (P)
Instructors: Shin-Yi Chao
Description: This is a survey course on religious traditions in China covering Buddhist, Daoist, and popular religion, while Confucian theorization and ritualization of ethics will also be included. The course aims at broadening your understanding of religion in general and deepening your conception of China as a cultural entity.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHIN 390-1 Supervised Teaching CHIN 102 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Ping Pian
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CHIN 390-2 Supervised Teaching - CHIN 102 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
3
Instructors: GuoMing Tian
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CHIN 390-3 Supervised Teaching CHIN 152 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Ping Pian
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CHIN 390-4 Supervised Teaching CHIN 152 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
3
Instructors: GuoMing Tian
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CHIN 390-5 Supervised Teaching CHIN 203 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
3
Instructors: Ping Pian
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CHIN 390-7 Supervised Teaching CHIN 206 Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
1
Instructors: GuoMing Tian
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Chemistry
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CHEM 132-1 CHEM Concepts, Syst, Pract II Spring 2023 5.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Hutchison Hall Room 141 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
304 		Capacity     
310
Instructors: Ellen Hicks; Kathryn Knowles
Description: (5 credits) A continuation of Chemical Concepts, Systems and Practices I, emphasizing molecular and macroscopic approaches to chemical systems with a focus on sustainability and environmental issues. Topics covered include: Chemical kinetics, electrochemistry, thermodynamics, properties of atoms, atomic structure, and chemical bonding. You must register for a lab lecture and laboratory (linked) when registering for the main course. Workshops are offered at multiple times during the week and assigned during the first week of classes. Lab fee of $134 will be billed by the Bursar's Office. This course uses the T/TR 8:00 am - 9:30 am common exam time. Prerequisite, CHEM 131 or equivalent.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 132-2 CHEM Concepts, Syst, Pract II Spring 2023 5.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Hutchison Hall Room 141 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
229 		Capacity     
310
Instructors: Kathryn Knowles; Ellen Hicks
Description: (5 credits) A continuation of Chemical Concepts, Systems and Practices I, emphasizing molecular and macroscopic approaches to chemical systems with a focus on sustainability and environmental issues. Topics covered include: Chemical kinetics, electrochemistry, thermodynamics, properties of atoms, atomic structure, and chemical bonding. You must register for a lab lecture and laboratory (linked) when registering for the main course. Workshops are offered at multiple times during the week and assigned during the first week of classes. Lab fee of $134 will be billed by the Bursar's Office. This course uses the T/TR 8:00 am - 9:30 am common exam time. Prerequisite: CHEM 131 or equivalent.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 172-1 First-Year Organic CHEM II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1025 1115 Computer Studies Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
42 		Capacity     
60
Instructors: Rose Kennedy
Restrictions: Open to First Year Students Only AS&E
Description: CHEM 172 is the second semester of a one-year exploration of the fundamental concepts, principles, and practices of organic chemistry, with a focus on defining relationships between molecular structure, reactivity, and function. You (the student) will take an active role in defining questions, evaluating evidence, weighing arguments, developing and testing hypotheses, and communicating these complex topics. This study of organic chemistry will be integrated with a review of the key concepts from general chemistry and will highlight relationships with related areas including organometallic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and biochemistry. The CHEM171/172 sequence is designed for first-year students with good preparation in chemistry (2 years of general chemistry and an AP score of 4 or 5, or equivalent). This sequence provides a fast-track to advanced chemistry courses and the fulfillment of degree requirements in other disciplines. Co-registration in a workshop section is required. Co-registration in the accompanying lab—CHEM208 or CHEM210(W)—is strongly encouraged; CHM210W is recommended for CHEM majors. $134 lab fee billed by Bursar Office. Prerequisites: CHEM 171 and CHEM 173.
Offered: Spring
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CHEM 204-1 Organic Chemistry II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1150 1240 Hutchison Hall Room 141 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
304 		Capacity     
360
Instructors: Benjamin Hafensteiner
Description: (4 credits, Spring) A continuation of a two-semester sequence in the study of organic chemistry. Topics covered include the reactivity of various functional groups, approaches to organic synthesis, reactivity of conjugated systems and molecules of biological significance. There are three 50-minute lectures per week and one workshop. Co-registration REQUIRED in the accompanying laboratory course, CHEM 208. Alternatively, CHEM210W a 2 credit lab is recommended for chemistry majors { not offered in summer}. Lab fee of $136 will be billed by the Bursar's Office. Prerequisite: Grade of C- or better in CHM 203 or equivalent. This course uses the Tues/Thurs 8:00 am - 9:30 am common exam time.
Offered: Spring
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CHEM 208-1 Organic Chemistry II: Lab Lecture Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1515 Hutchison Hall Room 141 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
151 		Capacity     
333
Instructors: John-Carl Olsen
Description: (1 credit, spring) A continuation of the laboratory sequence begun in CHM 207 with two components. The one credit laboratory section meets once each week for 2 hours and 40 minutes. In addition, the lab-lecture meets once each week for 50 minutes. Chemistry majors should take CHM 210, a 2 credit laboratory course. $134 lab fee will be billed. Prerequisites: CHEM 207 or CHEM 173; co-registration in CHEM 172 or CHEM 204.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 208-2 Organic Chemistry II: Lab Lecture Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1230 1345 Hutchison Hall Room 141 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
144 		Capacity     
300
Instructors: John-Carl Olsen
Description: (1 credit, spring) A continuation of the laboratory sequence begun in CHM 207 with two components. The one credit laboratory section meets once each week for 2 hours and 40 minutes. In addition, the lab-lecture meets once each week for 50 minutes. Chemistry majors should take CHM 210, a 2 credit laboratory course. $136 lab fee will be billed. Prerequisites: CHEM 207 or CHEM 173; co-registration in CHEM 172 or CHEM 204. (Tuesday CHM 208 Lab Lecture requires Instructor permission)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 210W-1 Organic Chemistry II H:Lab Lecture Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 800 850 Computer Studies Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
40 		Capacity     
50
Instructors: John-Carl Olsen
Description: (2 credits, Spring) This laboratory is recommended for CHM majors. It is part of the requirements for a chemistry BS degree, and may be used as one of the lab requirements for the chemistry BA degree. CHM 210W also meets one of the required two upper-level writing requirements for a chemistry major. This lab uses advanced, modern experimental techniques and includes training to use the department's NMR spectrometers. This requires extra time outside of scheduled laboratory hours (two, 3-hour laboratories and a lab-lecture per week). Co-registration in CHM 172 or CHM 204 is required. Lab fee of $134 will be billed by the Bursar's Office. Prerequisites: CHEM 207 or CHEM 173.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 232W-2 Molecular Spectroscopy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 900 950 Bausch & Lomb Room 269 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: David McCamant
Description: (4 credits, Spring) A thorough study of the principles and practice of spectroscopic methods of modern physical chemistry. Three lectures and one lab per week. Two exams and five laboratory reports. Course Topics: Overview, Classical view of spectroscopy, Quantum view of spectroscopy, oscillator, Rigid rotor and anharmonic oscillator, Generation and detection of EM radiation, Measurement methodology, noise, error, OCS lab and Stark effect, Electronic spectroscopy, Basic Electronics, Fine points of rovibrational spectra, FTIR experiment, 2 level theory, line broadening, Laser induced fluorescence experiment, Group theory, polyatomics, special topics, Polyatomic spectroscopy/intro to Pyrene, Pyrene lab instrumentation and analysis, Theory of ESR spectroscopy, ESR lab and instrumentation. Lab fee of $134 will be billed by the Bursar's Office. Prerequisites: CHEM 251 or equivalent.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 234-1 Adv Laboratory Techniques Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Hylan Building Room 105 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
26
Co-Located: CHEM 234-1 (P), CHEM 234W-2
Instructors: William Jones
Description: (4 credits, Spring) Advanced laboratory techniques of synthesis, characterization, and analysis applied to problems in inorganic and organic chemistry. A laboratory course with two or three 75-minute lectures for each lab. Labs are scheduled either Mon/Wed or Tue/Thurs for approximately two-and-one-half hours each. Graded work includes five lab reports, a midterm, and two problem sets. 234W has an additional writing assignment. CHM 234W meets one of the two required upper level writing courses for the chemistry major. Lab fee of $134 will be billed by the Bursar's Office. Prerequisites: CHEM 211 recommended.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 234W-2 Adv Laboratory Techniques Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Hylan Building Room 105 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
26
Co-Located: CHEM 234-1 (P), CHEM 234W-2
Instructors: William Jones
Description: (4 credits, Spring) Advanced laboratory techniques of synthesis, characterization, and analysis applied to problems in inorganic and organic chemistry. A laboratory course with two or three 75-minute lectures for each lab. Labs are scheduled either Mon/Wed or Tue/Thurs for approximately two-and-one-half hours each. Graded work includes five lab reports, a midterm, and two problem sets. 234W has an additional writing assignment and meets one of the two required upper level writing courses for the chemistry major. Lab fee of $134 will be billed by the Bursar's Office. Prerequisites: CHEM 211 recommended.
Offered: Fall Spring
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CHEM 244W-1 The Adv Nuclear Sci Edu Lab Spring 2023 Lecture Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1640 Bausch & Lomb Room 407 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
6
Co-Located: CHEM 244W-1, CHEM 444-1, PHYS 245W-01 (P), PHYS 445-1
Instructors: Wolf Schroeder
Description: ANSEL Lab sessions will meet twice a week for two hours and 40 minutes. In addition to the lab component, students will attend a weekly lecture to discuss the scientific background of the experiments and to relate principles of radiation detection and measurement to modern applications in physics, chemistry, environmental studies, power technology, medicine and forensics. (Spring, formerly CHM 245W).
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 252-1 Physical Chemistry II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Hylan Building Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
28 		Capacity     
50
Co-Located: CHEM 252-1 (P), CHEM 442-1
Instructors: Wolf Schroeder
Description: (4 credits, Fall, Spring) Chemistry 252 covers thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and chemical kinetics. These subjects provide a fundamental understanding of the behavior of matter and energy. The focus of the class is on both Thermodynamics, which is the mathematical theory of heat, gives rules describing how heat flows, and the relationship between heat and other kinds of energy, as well as on Statistical mechanics, which is the discipline that explains the nature of temperature, entropy, and provides a fundamental and microscopic explanation of thermodynamics in terms of probability and laws of statistics. The course follows the textbook “Molecular Thermodynamics” by D.A. McQuarrie and John Simon, and “Molecular Driving Force” by K.A. Dill and S. Bromberg.

The course begins with the concept of Microstates and Entropy, the equal a priori probabilities assumption, the direction of approaching equilibrium as a process that maximizes the total number of microstates. It then discusses the nature of Temperature and uses heat transfer as an example to illustrate the process that maximizes the number of microstates. It continues with the derivation of the Boltzmann distribution and the physical meaning of partition function, followed by simple and concise applications of Boltzmann distribution. It then covers the factorization approximation, Translational Partition Function and Partition function of the monatomic ideal gas, obtaining energy and pressure from the partition function. It follows with the vibrational and rotational partition functions, and the intuitive understanding of heat capacities of solid and diatomic molecules. The course continues with the equipartition theorem of energy, and the concept of negative temperature. It then covers the Statistical Entropy, Entropy for model systems and detailed examples, Gibbs Entropy Formula and applications. For the Thermodynamics part of the class, it begins with the Basic logic of Thermodynamics, spontaneous processes, and the direction of approaching equilibrium. It continuous with the first law of Thermodynamics, Work, and Heat, The second law of Thermodynamics, and thermodynamics definition of Entropy, The third law of Thermodynamics, the Temperature dependence of Entropy, the concept of Enthalpy and its application in Thermochemistry. Then it follows with the Helmholtz Free energy, Gibbs Free Energy, Maxwell Relation and Gibbs-Helmholtz equation. The course then discusses the applications, focusing on Phase Equilibria, Chemical Potential, Gibbs-Duhem Equation, Solutions. It ends with the discussions of Chemical Equilibrium, Chemical Kinetics, Transition State Theory. The course also has peer-lead workshop sessions. In these sessions, students will work in teams and lead by workshop leaders to discuss concepts learned in lectures and solve problems that exemplify the concepts discussed in lecture material and explain their solutions to each other. Workshops help the students to engage with the material together with their peers. The class also contains 2-3 midterm exams and 10-11 homework problems, as well as a final exam.

This course uses the Tues/Thurs 8:00 - 9:30 am Common Exam time. Prerequisites:

General chemistry - CHM131/CHM132 or equivalent, first semester physics - PHY 113, Calculus - MTH143.
Offered: Spring
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CHEM 259-1 Electrochem Eng Fund&App Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: CHE 456-1 (P), CHEM 259-1, CHEM 459-1
Instructors: Astrid Mueller
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The course will familiarize the student with important modern concepts in electrochemical engineering. The first half of the course focuses on understanding the theory behind fundamental electrochemical processes. It covers mass transfer in homogeneous and heterogeneous systems, thermodynamics, charged interfaces, electron transfer kinetics, and electrochemical methods. The second half of the course introduces advanced applications, with topics including electrocatalysis and electrolysis, corrosion, photoelectrochemical devices, and flow batteries. It enables the student to quantitatively and qualitatively assess problems and empirical data from the literature, and to summarize and explain seminal and recent electrochemical engineering literature and technologies.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 262-1 Biological Chemistry Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 105 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
26
Co-Located: CHEM 262-1 (P), CHEM 462-1
Instructors: Rudi Fasan
Description: (4 credits, Spring) An introduction to the chemical processes of life. Topics to be covered include proteins and nucleic acids, recombinant DNA technology, biological catalysis, and energy transduction. Structure and function of biological macromolecules will be emphasized. Cross listed with CHM 462. Students will not receive credit for BIO 250 AND CHM 262/462. Prerequisites: at least one semester of organic chemistry (CHEM 171Q or CHEM 203).
Offered: Spring
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CHEM 275-1 The Chemistry of Poisons Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Hutchison Hall Room 473 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: CHEM 275-1 (P), CHEM 475-1
Instructors: Alison Frontier
Description:

(4 credits) In this course, we will explore both the science of poisonous substances and their impact on human history and culture. What is a poison? Where can poisons be found in nature? Who discovered them, and how? Focusing on small molecule poisons, we will study the chemical and biochemical mechanisms underlying their toxicity and discuss how antidotes work. Through case studies, we will examine the wide variety of uses people have found for these compounds, from committing crimes to practicing medicine. Source materials will include historical, literary, and scientific texts, recent essays, and popular culture. Prerequisite: completion of two semesters of organic chemistry.
Offered: Spring
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CHEM 393-1 Senior Research Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Kara Bren
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: (CHM393) Two semesters (8 credits) of senior research are mandatory for BS Chemistry Majors and optional for BA Chemistry Majors. In addition, a written senior thesis and participation in a department poster session in the spring semester is required of BS Chemistry Majors. Senior research is directed by a faculty member and arranged prior to registration. Instructor permission required. (www.sas.rochester.edu/chm/undergraduate/senior-thesis.html)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 393-10 Senior Research Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Ellen Hicks
Description: (CHM393) Two semesters (8 credits) of senior research are mandatory for BS Chemistry Majors and optional for BA Chemistry Majors. In addition, a written senior thesis and participation in a department poster session in the spring semester is required of BS Chemistry Majors. Senior research is directed by a faculty member and arranged prior to registration. Instructor permission required. (www.sas.rochester.edu/chm/undergraduate/senior-thesis.html)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 393-11 Senior Research Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: David McCamant
Description: (CHM393) Two semesters (8 credits) of senior research are mandatory for BS Chemistry Majors and optional for BA Chemistry Majors. In addition, a written senior thesis and participation in a department poster session in the spring semester is required of BS Chemistry Majors. Senior research is directed by a faculty member and arranged prior to registration. Instructor permission required. (www.sas.rochester.edu/chm/undergraduate/senior-thesis.html)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 393-13 Senior Research Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Bradley Nilsson
Description: (CHM393) Two semesters (8 credits) of senior research are mandatory for BS Chemistry Majors and optional for BA Chemistry Majors. In addition, a written senior thesis and participation in a department poster session in the spring semester is required of BS Chemistry Majors. Senior research is directed by a faculty member and arranged prior to registration. Instructor permission required. (www.sas.rochester.edu/chm/undergraduate/senior-thesis.html)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 393-14 Senior Research Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Shauna Tschirhart
Description: (CHM393) Two semesters (8 credits) of senior research are mandatory for BS Chemistry Majors and optional for BA Chemistry Majors. In addition, a written senior thesis and participation in a department poster session in the spring semester is required of BS Chemistry Majors. Senior research is directed by a faculty member and arranged prior to registration. Instructor permission required. (www.sas.rochester.edu/chm/undergraduate/senior-thesis.html)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 393-15 Senior Research Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Lewis Rothberg
Description: (CHM393) Two semesters (8 credits) of senior research are mandatory for BS Chemistry Majors and optional for BA Chemistry Majors. In addition, a written senior thesis and participation in a department poster session in the spring semester is required of BS Chemistry Majors. Senior research is directed by a faculty member and arranged prior to registration. Instructor permission required. (www.sas.rochester.edu/chm/undergraduate/senior-thesis.html)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 393-16 Senior Research Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Wolf Schroeder
Description: (CHM393) Two semesters (8 credits) of senior research are mandatory for BS Chemistry Majors and optional for BA Chemistry Majors. In addition, a written senior thesis and participation in a department poster session in the spring semester is required of BS Chemistry Majors. Senior research is directed by a faculty member and arranged prior to registration. Instructor permission required. (www.sas.rochester.edu/chm/undergraduate/senior-thesis.html)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 393-17 Senior Research Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Alison Frontier
Description: (CHM393) Two semesters (8 credits) of senior research are mandatory for BS Chemistry Majors and optional for BA Chemistry Majors. In addition, a written senior thesis and participation in a department poster session in the spring semester is required of BS Chemistry Majors. Senior research is directed by a faculty member and arranged prior to registration. Instructor permission required. (www.sas.rochester.edu/chm/undergraduate/senior-thesis.html)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 393-18 Senior Research Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Benjamin Partridge
Description: (CHM393) Senior research is directed by a faculty member and arranged prior to registration. BS Chemistry Majors: two semesters of senior research are required. (8 credits) In addition, a written senior thesis and participation in a department poster session in the spring semester is required of BS Chemistry Majors.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 393-2 Senior Research Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Rudi Fasan
Description:

(CHM393) Two semesters (8 credits) of senior research are mandatory for BS Chemistry Majors and optional for BA Chemistry Majors. In addition, a written senior thesis and participation in a department poster session in the spring semester is required of BS Chemistry Majors. Senior research is directed by a faculty member and arranged prior to registration. Instructor permission required. (www.sas.rochester.edu/chm/undergraduate/senior-thesis.html)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 393-3 Senior Research Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Ignacio Franco
Description:

(CHM393) Two semesters (8 credits) of senior research are mandatory for BS Chemistry Majors and optional for BA Chemistry Majors. In addition, a written senior thesis and participation in a department poster session in the spring semester is required of BS Chemistry Majors. Senior research is directed by a faculty member and arranged prior to registration. Instructor permission required. (www.sas.rochester.edu/chm/undergraduate/senior-thesis.html)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 393-5 Senior Research Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Pengfei Huo
Description:

(CHM393) Two semesters (8 credits) of senior research are mandatory for BS Chemistry Majors and optional for BA Chemistry Majors. In addition, a written senior thesis and participation in a department poster session in the spring semester is required of BS Chemistry Majors. Senior research is directed by a faculty member and arranged prior to registration. Instructor permission required. (www.sas.rochester.edu/chm/undergraduate/senior-thesis.html)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 393-6 Senior Research Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: William Jones
Description:

(CHM393) Two semesters (8 credits) of senior research are mandatory for BS Chemistry Majors and optional for BA Chemistry Majors. In addition, a written senior thesis and participation in a department poster session in the spring semester is required of BS Chemistry Majors. Senior research is directed by a faculty member and arranged prior to registration. Instructor permission required. (www.sas.rochester.edu/chm/undergraduate/senior-thesis.html)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 393-7 Senior Research Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Rose Kennedy
Description:

(CHM393) Two semesters (8 credits) of senior research are mandatory for BS Chemistry Majors and optional for BA Chemistry Majors. In addition, a written senior thesis and participation in a department poster session in the spring semester is required of BS Chemistry Majors. Senior research is directed by a faculty member and arranged prior to registration. Instructor permission required. (www.sas.rochester.edu/chm/undergraduate/senior-thesis.html)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 393-8 Senior Research Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Kathryn Knowles
Description: (CHM393) Two semesters (8 credits) of senior research are mandatory for BS Chemistry Majors and optional for BA Chemistry Majors. In addition, a written senior thesis and participation in a department poster session in the spring semester is required of BS Chemistry Majors. Senior research is directed by a faculty member and arranged prior to registration. Instructor permission required. (www.sas.rochester.edu/chm/undergraduate/senior-thesis.html)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 393-9 Senior Research Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Todd Krauss
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: (CHM393) Two semesters (8 credits) of senior research are mandatory for BS Chemistry Majors and optional for BA Chemistry Majors. In addition, a written senior thesis and participation in a department poster session in the spring semester is required of BS Chemistry Majors. Senior research is directed by a faculty member and arranged prior to registration. Instructor permission required. (www.sas.rochester.edu/chm/undergraduate/senior-thesis.html)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 416-2 X-Ray Crystallography Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Hylan Building Room 305 03/02/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: CHEM 416-2 (P), MSC 416-3
Instructors: William Brennessel
Description: (2 Credits) (formerly CHM 417) - Students will learn the basic principles of X-ray diffraction, symmetry, and space groups. Students will also experience the single crystal diffraction experiment, which includes crystal mounting, data collection, structure solution and refinement, and the reporting of crystallographic data. Weekly assignments: problem sets, simple lab work, or computer work. (Spring, 2nd half of semester.)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 422-1 Organometallic Chemistry Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Hylan Building Room 305 01/11/2023 03/01/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Brandon Barnett
Description: (2 credits) (formerly CHM 423) - Mechanisms in organometallic reactions. Applications of organometallic compounds in homogeneous catalysis, polymerization, metathesis. Prerequisite: CHEM 421 (Fall Spring, 1st half of semester).
Offered: Fall Spring
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CHEM 434-1 Adv Physical Organic Chem II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Meliora Room 224 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Rose Kennedy
Description: (4 credits, Spring) Structure and reactivity; kinetic, catalysis, medium effects,transition state theory, kinetic isotope effects, photochemistry, reactive intermediates, and mechanisms. Readings in text ('Determination of Organic Reaction Mechanisms,' B.K. Carpenter); Problem sets (about four during the semester). Two 75 minutes lectures per week. Prerequisites: One year of organic chemistry or equivalent.
Offered: Spring
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CHEM 436-1 Transition Metal Catalysis in Organic Synthesis I Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Hylan Building Room 105 01/11/2023 03/02/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Shauna Tschirhart
Description: (2 credits, Spring - first half of semester) Applications of Organometallic Chemistry to Synthesis I - The transition metal mediated organometallic reactions most commonly employed in organic synthesis will be discussed including their substrate scope, mechanism, and stereo- and/or regiochemical course. Emphasis will be placed on the practical aspects such as catalyst and reaction condition selection, and protocols for trouble shooting catalytic cycles. Prerequisites: CHEM 421.
Offered: Fall Spring
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CHEM 438-1 Organic Synthesis Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Hylan Building Room 105 03/13/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Shauna Tschirhart
Description: Applications of Organometallic Chemistry to Synthesis II (2 credits) - The second of two modules where transition metal mediated organometallic reactions employed in organic synthesis will be discussed including their substrate scope, mechanism, and stereo- and/or regiochemical course. The second module will cover a broad range of organometallic reactions. largely those mediated by titanium, zirconium, iron, cobalt, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, silver, and gold (Spring, 2nd of half semester).
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 440-2 Bioorganic Chemistry Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Hylan Building Room 105 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
26
Instructors: Bradley Nilsson
Restrictions: Not open to First Year and Sophomore - AS&E
Description: (4 credits) (Formerly CHM 437) - An introduction to bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology. The course will present a survey of how the principles of organic chemistry have been applied to understand and exploit biological phenomena and address fundamental questions in life sciences. The course is primarily based upon the primary literature. Covered topics include the design and mechanism of enzyme mimics and small molecule catalysts (organocatalysts), synthesis and chemical modification of biomolecules (oligonucleotides, proteins, oligosaccharides), design and application of oligonucleotide and peptide mimetics, and chemical approaches to proteomic and genetic analyses. Not open to first year students and sophomores. Prerequisites: One year of organic chemistry or equivaent; one semester of undergraduate biochemistry or biology recommended.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 442-1 Physical Chemistry II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Hylan Building Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
28 		Capacity     
50
Co-Located: CHEM 252-1 (P), CHEM 442-1
Instructors: Wolf Schroeder
Description: (4 credits, Fall, Spring) Chemistry 252 covers thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and chemical kinetics. These subjects provide a fundamental understanding of the behavior of matter and energy. The focus of the class is on both Thermodynamics, which is the mathematical theory of heat, gives rules describing how heat flows, and the relationship between heat and other kinds of energy, as well as on Statistical mechanics, which is the discipline that explains the nature of temperature, entropy, and provides a fundamental and microscopic explanation of thermodynamics in terms of probability and laws of statistics. The course follows the textbook “Molecular Thermodynamics” by D.A. McQuarrie and John Simon, and “Molecular Driving Force” by K.A. Dill and S. Bromberg.

The course begins with the concept of Microstates and Entropy, the equal a priori probabilities assumption, the direction of approaching equilibrium as a process that maximizes the total number of microstates. It then discusses the nature of Temperature and uses heat transfer as an example to illustrate the process that maximizes the number of microstates. It continues with the derivation of the Boltzmann distribution and the physical meaning of partition function, followed by simple and concise applications of Boltzmann distribution. It then covers the factorization approximation, Translational Partition Function and Partition function of the monatomic ideal gas, obtaining energy and pressure from the partition function. It follows with the vibrational and rotational partition functions, and the intuitive understanding of heat capacities of solid and diatomic molecules. The course continues with the equipartition theorem of energy, and the concept of negative temperature. It then covers the Statistical Entropy, Entropy for model systems and detailed examples, Gibbs Entropy Formula and applications. For the Thermodynamics part of the class, it begins with the Basic logic of Thermodynamics, spontaneous processes, and the direction of approaching equilibrium. It continuous with the first law of Thermodynamics, Work, and Heat, The second law of Thermodynamics, and thermodynamics definition of Entropy, The third law of Thermodynamics, the Temperature dependence of Entropy, the concept of Enthalpy and its application in Thermochemistry. Then it follows with the Helmholtz Free energy, Gibbs Free Energy, Maxwell Relation and Gibbs-Helmholtz equation. The course then discusses the applications, focusing on Phase Equilibria, Chemical Potential, Gibbs-Duhem Equation, Solutions. It ends with the discussions of Chemical Equilibrium, Chemical Kinetics, Transition State Theory. The course also has peer-lead workshop sessions. In these sessions, students will work in teams and lead by workshop leaders to discuss concepts learned in lectures and solve problems that exemplify the concepts discussed in lecture material and explain their solutions to each other. Workshops help the students to engage with the material together with their peers. The class also contains 2-3 midterm exams and 10-11 homework problems, as well as a final exam.

This course uses the Tues/Thurs 8:00 - 9:30 am Common Exam time. Prerequisites:

General chemistry - CHM131/CHM132 or equivalent, first semester physics - PHY 113, Calculus - MTH143.
Offered: Spring
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CHEM 444-1 The Adv Nuclear Sci Edu Lab Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1640 Bausch & Lomb Room 407 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
6
Co-Located: CHEM 244W-1, CHEM 444-1, PHYS 245W-01 (P), PHYS 445-1
Instructors: Frank Wolfs
Description: (4 credits) Students enrolled in ANSEL will develop a sophisticated understanding of our terrestrial radiation environment and of some of the important applications of nuclear science and technology. They will acquire practical skills in the routine use of radiation detectors, monitors, and electronics, and develop the ability to assess radiation threats and prospects of their abatement. The four in-depth ANSEL experiments are designed to help recreate a type of well-rounded, competent experimental nuclear scientist who is able to analyze an experimental problem, to select, design, and set up appropriate nuclear instrumentation, and to conduct required measurements. Laboratory sessions will meet twice a week for 2 hours and 40 minutes. In addition to the laboratory component of ANSEL students will attend a weekly lecture (1 hour and 15 minutes per week) to discuss the scientific background of the experiments and to relate principles of radiation detection and measurement. (Formerly CHM 445W)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 446-1 Nanoporous Materials Chemistry Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Hutchison Hall Room 118 03/13/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Brandon Barnett
Description: (2 credit, Fall, Spring) This course will survey the various classes of materials that can support permanent porosity as well as their established and emerging applications. Topics covered will include insustrial zeolite catalysis, adsorptive gas storage and separations, and membrane science. An emphasis will be placed on applications of current industrial importance. Prerequisites: CHEM 211 or equivalent and a basic familiarity of thermodynamics and chemical kinetics will be assumed. CHEM 252 is suggested but not required.
Offered: Spring
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CHEM 452-1 Quantum Dynamics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 900 1015 Hylan Building Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Ignacio Franco
Description: (4 credits, Spring) The goal of this course is to give you familiarity with concepts and methods in modern quantum mechanics that are employed in Chemistry and many-body Science. The course will introduce basic strategies to capture the quantum dynamics of closed systems and those in interaction with a quantum surrounding. Topics include: wave-packet methods in molecular dynamics, second quantization, density matrices, quantum relaxation and decoherence, Green's function techniques, path integral methods. Prerequisites: graduate level course on quantum mechanics, CHM451 or equivalent.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 456-1 CHEM Bonds:From Molcls to Mat Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Hylan Building Room 105 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: CHEM 456-1 (P), MSC 456-1, OPT 429-1
Instructors: Todd Krauss
Description: (4 credits, Spring) An introduction to the electronic structure of extended materials systems from both a chemical bonding and a condensed matter physics perspective. The course will discuss materials of all length scales from individual molecules to macroscopic three-dimensional crystals, but will focus on zero, one, and two dimensional inorganic materials at the nanometer scale. Specific topics include semiconductor nanocrystals, quantum wires, carbon nanotubes, and conjugated polymers. Two weekly lectures of 75 minutes each. Cross listed with OPT 429. Prerequisites: CHEM 251 or an equivalent course on introductory quantum mechanics.
Offered: Spring
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CHEM 459-1 Electrochem Eng Fund&APP Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: CHE 456-1 (P), CHEM 259-1, CHEM 459-1
Instructors: Astrid Mueller
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The course will familiarize the student with important modern concepts in electrochemical engineering. The first half of the course focuses on understanding the theory behind fundamental electrochemical processes. It covers mass transfer in homogeneous and heterogeneous systems, thermodynamics, charged interfaces, electron transfer kinetics, and electrochemical methods. The second half of the course introduces advanced applications, with topics including electrocatalysis and electrolysis, corrosion, photoelectrochemical devices, and flow batteries. It enables the student to quantitatively and qualitatively assess problems and empirical data from the literature, and to summarize and explain seminal and recent electrochemical engineering literature and technologies.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 462-1 Biological Chemistry Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 105 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
26
Co-Located: CHEM 262-1 (P), CHEM 462-1
Instructors: Rudi Fasan
Description: (4 credits, Spring) An introduction to the chemical processes of life. Topics to be covered include, proteins an nucleic acids, recombinant DNA technology, biological catalysis, and energy transduction. Structure and function of biological macromolecules will be emphasized. Cross listed with CHEM 262. Students will not receive credit for BIO 250 AND CHEM 262/462. Prerequisites: at least one semester of organic chemistry (CHEM 171Q or CHEM 203).
Offered: Spring
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CHEM 469-1 Computational Chemistry I Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Meliora Room 224 01/11/2023 03/03/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
22
Instructors: Pengfei Huo
Description: (2 credits) In this course students will learn about a range of computational methods that is relevant to their research problems in chemistry. Emphasis will be placed both on the theory underlying computational techniques and on their practical applications. Topics will include molecular mechanics, molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations, methods for free-energy calculations. (Fall, first 1/2 of semester)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 470-1 Computational Chemistry II Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Meliora Room 224 03/13/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
22
Instructors: Pengfei Huo
Description: (2 credits) In this course students will learn about a range of computational methods that is relevant to their research problems in chemistry. Emphasis will be placed both on the theory underlying computational techniques and on their practical applications. Topics will include ab-initio electronic structure theory, density functional theory, path-integral dynamics and non-adiabatic dynamics. (Fall, second 1/2 of semester)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 475-1 The Chemistry of Poisons Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Hutchison Hall Room 473 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: CHEM 275-1 (P), CHEM 475-1
Instructors: Alison Frontier
Description: (4 credits) In this course, we will explore both the science of poisonous substances and their impact on human history and culture. What is a poison? Where can poisons be found in nature? Who discovered them, and how? Focusing on small molecule poisons, we will study the chemical and biochemical mechanisms underlying their toxicity and discuss how antidotes work. Through case studies, we will examine the wide variety of uses people have found for these compounds, from committing crimes to practicing medicine. Source materials will include historical, literary, and scientific texts, recent essays, and popular culture. [Cross Listed:sCHM 275 (P), CHM 475]
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 511-1 Chemistry Seminar Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1525 1805 Hutchison Hall Room 473 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
45
Instructors: Ellen Hicks
Description: (1 credit, Fall, Spring) Chemistry seminar series. First-year graduate students must register as required. All others may attend as required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 511-2 Chemistry Seminar Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 845 1015 Hutchison Hall Room 473 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Ellen Hicks
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 583-1 Adv Chemistry Sem & Colloquium Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1200 1345 Hutchison Hall Room 140 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
100
Instructors: Ellen Hicks
Description:
Special Guest Speakers of Chemistry are scheduled regularly, and constitute an important component of graduate education.
Offered: Fall Spring
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CHEM 585-1 1st Yr Graduate Workshop Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
35
Instructors: William Jones
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHEM 593-1 Special Topics in Chemistry Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1805 Hutchison Hall Room 473 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
45
Instructors: Joseph Dinnocenzo
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Religion & Classics - Classical Studies
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CLST 110-1 Classical Mythology Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
45 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: CLST 110-1 (P), RELC 135-1
Instructors: Nicholas Gresens
Description: Introduction to the mythology of the classical world. We will examine the major myths about the gods, the origins and nature of the universe, and the heroic past, as they developed in the Greek world and as they were adapted in the Roman world. We will consider the nature and function of myth in society, some theoretical approaches to myth, and the way in which myths were adapted by Greek and Roman authors to fit a particular literary or historical context. This course will also devote time to comparing the classical system of myths to other mythological systems.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CLST 131-1 Ancient Cities of the Mediterranean Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lechase Room 160 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
14
Co-Located: AHST 199-1, CLST 131-1 (P), HIST 104-1
Instructors: Elizabeth Colantoni
Description: This course examines the phenomenon of urbanism in the ancient Mediterranean world. After a brief consideration of the rise of cities in western Asia and Egypt, the course focuses on the cities and colonies of ancient Greece and of the Roman Empire, with special attention devoted to Athens and Rome. Topics covered include town planning, public and private spaces and building types, urban life, and colonization, as seen through the archaeological remains of cities located around the Mediterranean basin and beyond.  There are no prerequisites for this course.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CLST 134-1 Archaeological Thought Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1000 1245 Rush Rhees Library Room 442 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AHST 140-1, ATHS 210-1 (P), CLST 134-1, HIST 117-1
Instructors: Stefanie Bautista San Miguel
Description: How did archaeology come to be the way it is now? This course will survey some of the major theoretical trends that have shaped anthropological archaeology. More specifically, students will learn how anthropological theory has influenced the interpretive frameworks and epistemologies of archaeological inference. We will spend half of the semester focusing on early archaeological theory, and the second half on topics and theories that are now central in archaeology. By the end of this course, students should be able to define and identify the major theories in archaeology that include culture-history, processualism, post-processualism, middle-range theory, Marxism, agency, identity, feminist, community, and indigenous archaeology.
Offered: Fall Spring
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CLST 203-1 History of Ancient Philosophy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Morey Room 501 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
39 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: CLST 203-1, PHIL 201-1 (P)
Instructors: Lawrence Philpot
Description: Survey of the philosophy of ancient Greece, from the Presocratics through Hellenistic philosophy six centuries later. We will study the work of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle on topics such as being, beauty, the soul, and the nature of justice, with special focus on the great dialogues of Plato.
Offered: Fall
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CLST 220-1 Writing History in Ancient Greece and Rome Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Lechase Room 184 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: CLST 220-1 (P), CLTR 204A-1, HIST 296-1
Instructors: Cameron Hawkins
Description: This course will provide a survey of the most important historical writers of the Greek and Roman world. We will read extensive selections from their work in translation, and discuss both the development of historiography as a literary genre and the development of history as a discipline in the ancient world. Finally, we will consider the implications these findings hold for our ability to use the works of Greek and Roman historical writers in our own efforts to construct narratives of the past.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CLST 230-1 Greek Art & Archaeology Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Harkness Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: AHST 225-1, CLST 230-1 (P), CLST 230W-1
Instructors: Elizabeth Colantoni
Description: This course examines the physical remains of ancient Greek civilization, with an emphasis on architecture, sculpture, painting, and other visual arts, in order to understand Greek culture and society. There are no prerequisites for this course.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CLST 230W-1 Greek Art & Archaeology Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Harkness Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: AHST 225-1, CLST 230-1 (P), CLST 230W-1
Instructors: Elizabeth Colantoni
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course examines the physical remains of ancient Greek civilization, with an emphasis on architecture, sculpture, painting, and other visual arts, in order to understand Greek culture and society. There are no prerequisites for this course.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CLST 294-1 Ancient Rome in Context Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: CLST 294-1 (P), RELC 294-1
Instructors: Nicholas Gresens
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Explore the connections between pagans and Christians in ancient Rome. See how pagan religious, cultural, & architectural trends influenced later Christian traditions. How did the rise of Christianity transform the ancient city and society of Rome?
Offered: Spring
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CLST 389-1 Senior Capstone Workshop Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Rush Rhees Library Room 428D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Nicholas Gresens
Description: In this course, students will refine the written product of their capstone experience and share their project with their peers.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CLST 392-1 Practicum Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Nicholas Gresens
Description: Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CLST 393W-1 Senior Project Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
1
Instructors: Nicholas Gresens
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Modern Languages & Cultures - Comparative Literature
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CLTR 151-1 Modern Latin America Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Morey Room 501 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: CLTR 151-1, HIST 151-1 (P)
Instructors: Molly Ball
Description:

This introductory course will cover the difficult process of nation-building that twenty-odd societies south of the Rio Grande experienced during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By the end of the course, students should be able to understand most references in Calle 13's song "Latinoamerica." Latin America became a space where questions of modernity and progress intersected with science and development. Foreign influence, intellectual, physical, and commercial, played a considerable role and many voices continued to be marginalized. As the twentieth century progressed, development strategies, shifting racial and gender norms, and the Cold War radically impacted the region's more modern history. We will explore these moments through a variety of traditional and less conventional primary and secondary sources. 
Offered: Fall Spring
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CLTR 200-1 Topics in Critical Thinking: What a Way to Make a Living: Literary Representations of Labor and the Laborer Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Lechase Room 181 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Elizabeth Weber
Description: This course draws its content from literary and theoretical works about labor and laborers (by various definitions!) spanning a number of different countries and traditions from the 19th to the 21st centuries. Our readings are roughly organized by theme, with each theme introduced in theoretical readings to provide basic concepts and vocabulary for analysis, followed by literary examples. Our major themes are: carceral labor; proletarian labor under capitalism; othering, intersections, and migrant labor; and “women’s work.” Minor themes include dehumanization or identity in relation to labor, as well as the role (real or symbolic) of AI (Artificial Intelligence) in conversations about labor. Many of our readings will speak to more than one of these themes. Assignments will focus on close analysis of texts and on the craft of writing argumentative essays. CLT 200 fulfills the departmental upper-level writing requirement and is required for the major.
Offered: Fall Spring
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CLTR 204A-1 Writing History in Ancient Greece and Rome Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Lechase Room 184 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: CLST 220-1 (P), CLTR 204A-1, HIST 296-1
Instructors: Cameron Hawkins
Description: This course will provide a survey of the most important historical writers of the Greek and Roman world. We will read extensive selections from their work in translation, and discuss both the development of historiography as a literary genre and the development of history as a discipline in the ancient world. Finally, we will consider the implications these findings hold for our ability to use the works of Greek and Roman historical writers in our own efforts to construct narratives of the past.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CLTR 212-1 Postwar Italian Directors: Fellini, Antonioni, Cavani Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 105 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: CLTR 212-1 (P), ENGL 262-1, ENGL 462-1, FMST 239-1, ITAL 243-1
Instructors: Andrew Korn
Description: This course explores three of Italy’s mostprominent postwar directors, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Liliana Cavani, who developed distinct cinemas and contributed radical representations to key cultural debates. 
Students will examine each filmmaker’s specific formal and thematic innovations, such as Fellini’s 
carnivalesque and dreamlike states, Antonioni’s use of space and color, and Cavani’s marginal 
figures and use of flashback. Students will also compare how their works address three of postwar 
Italy’s and the West’s most critical questions: modernization, the 1968 student protests and the 
legacy of Fascism. Films include: Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and Amarcord; Antonioni’s Red Desert and 
Zabriskie Point; Cavani’s The Cannibals and The Night Porter. Assignments include: historical, 
biographical and critical readings, film screenings, short papers and a final essay. Readings will 
be in English and films will be shown with English subtitles
Offered: Fall Spring
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CLTR 214N-1 Tourist Japan Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Hylan Building Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Joanne Bernardi
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Focused on but not limited to the first half of the 20th century, this course explores representations of Japan in a wide range of visual and material culture: e.g., ephemera generated by tourism, education and entertainment; advertisements and souvenirs; and wartime propaganda traveling similar routes of exchange. Travel brochures, guidebooks, photographs, postcards, films and other objects reflect changing concepts of urban space, rural culture, industry, geography, and military and political authority. Recurrent iconography and coded images link tourism and educational objects and images with evolving concepts of and questions regarding modernity, nationalism and cultural identity: e.g., how is the meaning of “modernity” in Japan useful to a study of the continuous transformation of culture in specific contexts, as in the transition from ukiyo-e culture to photography and animated films? This lecture/discussion course has a digital component: students work hands-on with the Re-Envisioning Japan Collection and digital archive, learning both critical analysis and digital curation skills. The course includes weekly film assignments and one field trip each to the Memorial Art Gallery and George Eastman Museum. No audits. 
Offered: Fall Spring
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CLTR 214R-1 Russian Folklore Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
19
Co-Located: CLTR 214R-1 (P), RSST 214-1, RUSS 214-1
Instructors: Nikita Maslennikov
Description: The objective of this course is to explore Russian Folklore in all the wealth and the variety of its forms. We will study Russian Folklore from different perspectives, such as its development in time and space; its social and economic dimensions in Russia; and the historical changes that it underwent. We will explore the full range of folkloric forms, from the riddle to ancient Russian rituals and beliefs to the jokes and folk songs which are an integral part of contemporary social networks and TV shows. Analysis of these narratives and behaviors will allow the students to familiarize themselves with Russian fairy tales and to find their way in the maze of patterns and meanings in the Russian magic world. We will study the oral, visual, musical and folk architectural heritage in contemporary Russia, as well as ways in which Russian Folklore is collected, documented and interpreted by scholars. 
Offered: Fall Spring
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CLTR 224-1 Gender, Sexuality, and Desire in 20th century Chinese Literature Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Frederick Douglass Room 403 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: CHIN 222-1 (P), CLTR 224-1, GSWS 222-1
Instructors: Elizabeth Weber
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: In this course, we will be examining works of literature from China’s late nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries in order to better understand how conceptions, representations, and expressions of gender, sexuality, and desire changed during periods of drastic political and intellectual change. Our readings will include (but not necessarily be limited to) the following areas: risqué literature from the tail end of the Qing dynasty; modernist approaches to gender and heterosexual and same-sex desire in the May Fourth and early Republican periods; the ideological treatment of gender and sexuality during the high socialist period; and the reemergence of literary expressions of desire and gender identity in the post-Mao era and beyond.
Offered: Fall Spring
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CLTR 228A-1 Wartime Love: Italian Novels of the Fifties and Sixties Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Genesee Hall Room 323 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: CLTR 228A-1 (P), GSWS 221-1, ITAL 250-1
Instructors: Andrew Korn
Description: The years following the Second World War saw an outpouring of novels in Italy, all attempting to capture the realities of the tumultuous period just passed. In this course, we will explore three of the era's most remarkable works: Giorgio Bassani's The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, Beppe Fenoglio's A Private Affair and Natalia Ginzburg's Family Lexicon. What distinguishes them are the unique lenses through which they recount history, offering glimpses of how love, in particular, becomes entangled in politics and war: in Bassani's story, a town ostracizes an older resident for his relationship with a young man during the rise of Fascism; in Fenoglio's tale, one partisan’s memories of his beloved veer him off course during the Resistance; and in Ginzburg's account, a woman relates her antifascist Jewish family’s trials and tribulations under dictatorship. To complement the novels, there will be a theoretical component to elaborate the issues of gender, sexuality and relationality. Assignments include: historical, biographical and critical readings, short papers and a final essay. All readings will be in English.
Offered: Fall Spring
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CLTR 229A-1 Biographies of Emancipation in the Black World Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Hylan Building Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: AAAS 247-1, AAAS 447-1, CLTR 229A-1 (P), CLTR 429A-1
Instructors: Cilas Kemedjio
Description: This course explores the sites and figures who contributed to the emancipation of the Black world, understood here as the African continent and peoples of African descent. The course's main objective is to introduce students to charismatic figures such as Kwame Nkrumah, W.E.B. Dubois, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, Josephine Baker, Angela Davis and many others who contributed to the long walk to freedom in the Black World. Students will also learn by leaving and interacting with host families. The ultimate outcome expected from this course is to introduce students to Ghana as a strategic location in the global struggle for the emancipation of the Black world.
Offered: Fall Spring
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CLTR 229B-1 Humanitarianism and Social Insecurities Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lechase Room 161 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: AAAS 280-1, AAAS 412-1, CLTR 229B-1 (P), CLTR 429B-1, FREN 228-1, FREN 428-1
Instructors: Cilas Kemedjio
Description: Humanitarianism, largely understood as the ultimate of ethical acts, took root in the modern world not as a response to war or “emergencies” but as part of an effort to remake the world so that it better served the interests of humanity. Against the “hegemonic corporate forces of predatory capitalism,” aid agencies perform the work of welfare workers who are part of the network of moral discourses, religious beliefs, ethical commitments, and international norms that generate an obligation to help distant strangers.” Humanitarianism and Social Insecurities engages students in a critical understanding of humanitarianism discourses and practices through an investigation of polemics, misunderstandings, testimonials, and the creative imagination inspired by humanitarian interventions. With the recognition that “noble actions can have negative and unintended consequences”, this course takes the student from a position of moral indignation to one of a critical indignation, and ultimately, a better understanding of the practices and discourses generated by the phenomenon of charity, humanitarianism, and Social Insecurities.
Offered: Fall Spring
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CLTR 230-1 Film as Object Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Wegmans Room 1009 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
14
Co-Located: CLTR 230-1 (P), CLTR 430-1, ENGL 258-2, ENGL 458-1, FMST 243-1, JPNS 207-1
Instructors: Joanne Bernardi
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Moving images recorded on analog film defined the 20th century in an unprecedented way. This course considers the tangible object that is the source of the image onscreen, and the social, cultural, and historical value of a reel of film as an organic element with a finite life cycle. We focus on the analog photographic element and its origins (both theatrical and small gauge), the basics of photochemical film technology, and the state of film conservation and preservation worldwide. Guest lectures by staff of the Moving Image Department of George Eastman Museum provide a first-hand look at film preservation in action, allowing us to consider analog film as an ephemeral form of material culture: a multipurpose, visual record that is art, entertainment, evidentiary document, and historical artifact. Weekly film assignments. Class meets on River Campus and at George Eastman Museum (900 East Ave, no admission fee but students provide their own transportation). No audits, no pre-requisites. Enrollment limited by hands-on nature of course.
Offered: Fall Spring
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CLTR 238A-1 Revolutions and Revolt Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: CLTR 238A-1 (P), CLTR 438A-1, GRMN 238-1, GRMN 438-1, GSWS 237-1, JWST 243-1
Instructors: Lisa Cerami
Description: Revolutions and Revolt is an experimental course that examines 20th century German cultural history. We will explore questions of social justice, representation, and political expression clustered around three major revolutionary moments: the German Revolution of 1918, the German Student Movement of 1968, and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Our course will be oriented by a careful reading of Marx and Engle's Communist Manifesto, that, while also defining the conditions of possibility for an empowered proletarian class, can also be used a tool to reflect on the revolutionary features of language, poetry, and art. We will think about specific genres – the manifesto, the pamphlet, political theater, and film, as genres that calls or could call "revolution" into being. These historical hinge points (a term I am borrowing from Matt Christman) bring various emancipatory impulses into relief, beyond the history of class conflict described in the Communist Manifesto, and we will engage with pacificist, anti-fascist, feminist, and Jewish texts and artworks. This course is conducted in English, and our readings are English translations of German texts, but if students of German would like to work on original texts, these can be provided along with alternative assignments where German language practice might be implemented.
Offered: Spring
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CLTR 240A-1 Philosophy of Music Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1650 1930 Eastman School Of Music Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: CLTR 240A-1, CLTR 440A-1, FREN 296-1, FREN 496-1, TH 282-1 (P), TH 482-1
Instructors: Robert Doran; Jonathan Dunsby
Description: This course examines philosophical approaches to music (broadly defined) and thus lies at the frontiers of music theory, philosophical aesthetics, and philosophy of art. Themes to be explored include the ontology of music, performance theory, the problem of musical representation, musical semiotics, phenomenology of music, music and aesthetic value, and musical affect theory. Theoreticians and philosophers studied include classic (Hanslick, Gurney), as well as twentieth-century (Adorno, Jankélévitch) and contemporary (Peter Kivy, Stephen Davies, Lydia Goehr, Jean-Jacques Nattiez) authors. No prerequisites, but students must be able to read music notation to take this course. Conducted in English.
Offered: Spring
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CLTR 242A-1 Poe and Hoffman Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lattimore Room 431 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CLTR 242A-1 (P), CLTR 442A-1, ENGL 232-2, GRMN 230-1, GRMN 430-1
Instructors: Susan Gustafson
Description: This course explores the beginnings of the horror and detective genres in the 19th century. Particular attention is devoted to the narrative structure, tropes, and psychological content of the strange tales by Poe and Hoffmann. Theories of horror are also addressed to include discussions by lessing, Todorov, Huet, and Kristeva. NOTE: THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Offered: Fall Spring
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CLTR 248-1 On the Move: Ethnographic Films Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Morey Room 501 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CLTR 248-1 (P), FMST 230-1, GRMN 248-1, GSWS 240-1
Instructors: June Hwang
Description: This course will explore various concepts of mobility and encounters within ethnographic films and texts. Questions we will investigate include: How does one represent a culture? What notions of race, gender, sexuality and national identities are reinforced and challenged in these works? Who speaks for whom and what are the consequences? What kinds of power relationships are hidden or made visible in these films and texts?
Offered: Fall Spring
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CLTR 252A-1 Kleist & Kafka Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 431 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CLTR 252A-1 (P), GRMN 229-1, GRMN 486-1
Instructors: Susan Gustafson
Description: Franz Kafka is one of Austria’s most famous and influential writers. His short prose works have had a tremendous influence on contemporary literature and cultural studies. In this course you will learn what “kafkaesque” means in its complexity. Heinrich von Kleist is less well-known in the US, but he, like Kafka, provides representations of modern bureaucratic nightmares, of blurred boundaries between reality and fantasy, ailing artists, and non-existent or idolized women.  Both authors explore the weird, dreamlike, eerie, and inexplicable nature of the world and life. This course is taught in English. 
Offered: Fall Spring
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CLTR 264E-1 Japanese Science Fiction and Planetary Possible Futures Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1650 1930 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: CLTR 264E-1 (P), FMST 236-1, JPNS 245-1
Instructors: William Bridges
Description: A good science fiction story,' Frederik Pohl proposes, 'should be able to predict not the automobile, but the traffic jam.' This course considers the 'traffic jams' the far-flung possible worlds imagined in Japanese science fiction from the 1920s to the present. Genres covered include the short story, short short story, novel, manga, anime, and film. Japanese science fiction is considered in planetary perspective: Japanese works are considered alongside pertinent works from other national traditions of science fiction. This course is interested ultimately in explorations of a futuristic approach to the study of literature: it is interested in what our readings today might tell us about what tomorrow might bring. All readings are done in English translation; all viewing have English subtitling.
Offered: Spring
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CLTR 284-1 Translation&World Literature Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Meliora Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: CLTR 284-1, CLTR 484-1, ENGL 287-2, LTST 206-2 (P), LTST 406-1
Instructors: Chad Post
Description: The focus of this course is to examine what makes a translation "successful" as a translation. By reading a series of recently translated works (some contemporary, some retranslations of modern classics), and by talking with translators, we will have the opportunity to discuss both specific and general issues that come up while translating a given text. Young translators will be exposed to a lot of practical advice throughout this class, helping to refine their approach to their own translations, and will expand their understanding of various practices and possibilities for the art and craft of literary translation.
Offered: Spring
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CLTR 289-1 Dangerous Texts Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
19
Co-Located: CLTR 289-1 (P), RSST 289-1, RUSS 289-1
Instructors: Anna Maslennikova
Description: When modern Russian literature began to evolve in the mid-1600s, the printed or written text was immediately seen as a potential danger to the power of Church and State. In this course we will examine dangerous texts' from the 17th century to the present to see what aspects of texts and their authors were seen as threats and how these threats were dealt with. We will also see the ways in which writers did indeed perceive themselves as a second government' and how this changed the way they wrote. The reading list will include works by: Avvakum, Radishchev, Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Babel, Mayakovsky, Mandelstam, Pasternak, Yevtushenko, Solzhenitsyn, Voinovich, Grossman, and Sinyavsky/Tertz. The goal of this course is to arrive at an understanding of the unique role played by literature in Russian history. In English.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CLTR 389-1 MLC Research Seminar Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Vialcary Crisostomo
Description: CLT 389 introduces students to a broad range of theoretical and critical approaches to reading and interpreting texts, films, and other cultural objects. Students read literature and theory with an eye toward understanding the role of criticism and why and how the study of literature and culture (still) matters. The class introduces tools for understanding literary uses of languages; the relations between words, images, the human subject and society; and the creation of and struggles over meaning and value. This seminar will model for students how to do research in their MLC major through a workshop process that addresses ways to: identify a research topic/question; begin a scholarly investigation into that topic; and successfully conduct a sustained argument that relies on textual evidence and the application of theoretical insights. There will be short writing assignments and a 15-20-page research paper. Non-majors should request permission before registering. Prerequisite: CLTR 200.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CLTR 395-1 Independent Research Spring 2023 Lecture Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Description: Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CLTR 414N-1 Tourist Japan Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Hylan Building Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Joanne Bernardi
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Focused on but not limited to the first half of the 20th century, this course explores representations of Japan in a wide range of visual and material culture: e.g., ephemera generated by tourism, education and entertainment; advertisements and souvenirs; and wartime propaganda traveling similar routes of exchange. Travel brochures, guidebooks, photographs, postcards, films and other objects reflect changing concepts of urban space, rural culture, industry, geography, and military and political authority. Recurrent iconography and coded images link tourism and educational objects and images with evolving concepts of and questions regarding modernity, nationalism and cultural identity: e.g., how is the meaning of “modernity” in Japan useful to a study of the continuous transformation of culture in specific contexts, as in the transition from ukiyo-e culture to photography and animated films? This lecture/discussion course has a digital component: students work hands-on with the Re-Envisioning Japan Collection and digital archive, learning both critical analysis and digital curation skills. The course includes weekly film assignments and one field trip each to the Memorial Art Gallery and George Eastman Museum. No audits. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CLTR 429A-1 Biographies of Emancipation in the Black World Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Hylan Building Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: AAAS 247-1, AAAS 447-1, CLTR 229A-1 (P), CLTR 429A-1
Instructors: Cilas Kemedjio
Description: This course explores the sites and figures who contributed to the emancipation of the Black world, understood here as the African continent and peoples of African descent. The course's main objective is to introduce students to charismatic figures such as Kwame Nkrumah, W.E.B. Dubois, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, Josephine Baker, Angela Davis and many others who contributed to the long walk to freedom in the Black World. Students will also learn by leaving and interacting with host families. The ultimate outcome expected from this course is to introduce students to Ghana as a strategic location in the global struggle for the emancipation of the Black world.
Offered: Fall Spring
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CLTR 429B-1 Humanitarianism and Social Insecurities Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lechase Room 161 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: AAAS 280-1, AAAS 412-1, CLTR 229B-1 (P), CLTR 429B-1, FREN 228-1, FREN 428-1
Instructors: Cilas Kemedjio
Description: Humanitarianism, largely understood as the ultimate of ethical acts, took root in the modern world not as a response to war or “emergencies” but as part of an effort to remake the world so that it better served the interests of humanity. Against the “hegemonic corporate forces of predatory capitalism,” aid agencies perform the work of welfare workers who are part of the network of moral discourses, religious beliefs, ethical commitments, and international norms that generate an obligation to help distant strangers.” Humanitarianism and Social Insecurities engages students in a critical understanding of humanitarianism discourses and practices through an investigation of polemics, misunderstandings, testimonials, and the creative imagination inspired by humanitarian interventions. With the recognition that “noble actions can have negative and unintended consequences”, this course takes the student from a position of moral indignation to one of a critical indignation, and ultimately, a better understanding of the practices and discourses generated by the phenomenon of charity, humanitarianism, and Social Insecurities.
Offered: Fall
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CLTR 430-1 Film as Object Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Wegmans Room 1009 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
14
Co-Located: CLTR 230-1 (P), CLTR 430-1, ENGL 258-2, ENGL 458-1, FMST 243-1, JPNS 207-1
Instructors: Joanne Bernardi
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Moving images recorded on analog film defined the 20th century in an unprecedented way. This course considers the tangible object that is the source of the image onscreen, and the social, cultural, and historical value of a reel of film as an organic element with a finite life cycle. We focus on the analog photographic element and its origins (both theatrical and small gauge), the basics of photochemical film technology, and the state of film conservation and preservation worldwide. Guest lectures by staff of the Moving Image Department of George Eastman Museum provide a first-hand look at film preservation in action, allowing us to consider analog film as an ephemeral form of material culture: a multipurpose, visual record that is art, entertainment, evidentiary document, and historical artifact. Weekly film assignments. Class meets on River Campus and at George Eastman Museum (900 East Ave, no admission fee but students provide their own transportation). No audits, no pre-requisites. Enrollment limited by hands-on nature of course.
Offered: Fall Spring
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CLTR 438-1 On the Move: Ethnographic Films Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: June Hwang
Description: This course will explore various concepts of mobility and encounters within ethnographic films and texts. Questions we will investigate include: How does one represent a culture? What notions of race, gender, sexuality and national identities are reinforced and challenged in these works? Who speaks for whom and what are the consequences? What kinds of power relationships are hidden or made visible in these films and texts?
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CLTR 438A-1 Revolutions and Revolt Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: CLTR 238A-1 (P), CLTR 438A-1, GRMN 238-1, GRMN 438-1, GSWS 237-1, JWST 243-1
Instructors: Lisa Cerami
Description: Revolutions and Revolt is an experimental course that examines 20th century German cultural history. We will explore questions of social justice, representation, and political expression clustered around three major revolutionary moments: the German Revolution of 1918, the German Student Movement of 1968, and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Our course will be oriented by a careful reading of Marx and Engle's Communist Manifesto, that, while also defining the conditions of possibility for an empowered proletarian class, can also be used a tool to reflect on the revolutionary features of language, poetry, and art. We will think about specific genres – the manifesto, the pamphlet, political theater, and film, as genres that calls or could call "revolution" into being. These historical hinge points (a term I am borrowing from Matt Christman) bring various emancipatory impulses into relief, beyond the history of class conflict described in the Communist Manifesto, and we will engage with pacificist, anti-fascist, feminist, and Jewish texts and artworks. This course is conducted in English, and our readings are English translations of German texts, but if students of German would like to work on original texts, these can be provided along with alternative assignments where German language practice might be implemented.
Offered: Spring
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CLTR 440A-1 Philosophy of Music Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1650 1930 Eastman School Of Music Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: CLTR 240A-1, CLTR 440A-1, FREN 296-1, FREN 496-1, TH 282-1 (P), TH 482-1
Instructors: Robert Doran; Jonathan Dunsby
Description: This course examines philosophical approaches to music (broadly defined) and thus lies at the frontiers of music theory, philosophical aesthetics, and philosophy of art. Themes to be explored include the ontology of music, performance theory, the problem of musical representation, musical semiotics, phenomenology of music, music and aesthetic value, and musical affect theory. Theoreticians and philosophers studied include classic (Hanslick, Gurney), as well as twentieth-century (Adorno, Jankélévitch) and contemporary (Peter Kivy, Stephen Davies, Lydia Goehr, Jean-Jacques Nattiez) authors. No prerequisites, but students must be able to read music notation to take this course. Conducted in English.
Offered: Spring
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CLTR 442A-1 Poe and Hoffman Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lattimore Room 431 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CLTR 242A-1 (P), CLTR 442A-1, ENGL 232-2, GRMN 230-1, GRMN 430-1
Instructors: Susan Gustafson
Description: This course explores the beginnings of the horror and detective genres in the 19th century. Particular attention is devoted to the narrative structure, tropes, and psychological content of the strange tales by Poe and Hoffmann. Theories of horror are also addressed to include discussions by lessing, Todorov, Huet, and Kristeva. NOTE: THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CLTR 484-1 Translation & World Literature Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Meliora Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: CLTR 284-1, CLTR 484-1, ENGL 287-2, LTST 206-2 (P), LTST 406-1
Instructors: Chad Post
Description: The focus of this course is to examine what makes a translation "successful" as a translation. By reading a series of recently translated works (some contemporary, some retranslations of modern classics), and by talking with translators, we will have the opportunity to discuss both specific and general issues that come up while translating a given text. Young translators will be exposed to a lot of practical advice throughout this class, helping to refine their approach to their own translations, and will expand their understanding of various practices and possibilities for the art and craft of literary translation.
Offered: Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Computer Science
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CSC 161-1 Introduction to Programming Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Hoyt Hall Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
193 		Capacity     
200
Instructors: Andrew Read-McFarland
Description: Hands-on introduction to programming using the Python programming language. Covers basic programming constructs including statements, expressions, variables, conditionals, iteration, and functions, as well as object-oriented programming and graphics.

This course is for non-majors, and/or students with less math and science background. Lab and workshop required.

This course may not be used for CSC major credit if completed after or at the same time as CSC171
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 170-1 Introduction to Web Development Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Goergen Hall Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
89 		Capacity     
90
Instructors: Andrew Read-McFarland
Description: An introduction to the World Wide Web and related technologies. Topics include HTML5 and CSS3, Progressive Enhancement, and Web page design. Emphasis is placed on fundamentals, industry standards and best practices. Additional topics include: web site construction techniques, mobile design issues, and Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Programming with JavaScript will be introduced.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 171-1 Introduction to Computer Science Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Hutchison Hall Room 141 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
144 		Capacity     
180
Instructors: Adam Purtee
Description: Hands-on introduction to programming using the Java programming language. Teaches fundamentals of programming and more advanced topics. Emphasizes algorithmic thinking and computational problem solving and provides an introduction to the concepts and methods used in Computer Science. Required for all CSC & DSCC majors.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 172-1 Data Structures & Algorithms Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Hutchison Hall Room 141 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
177 		Capacity     
200
Instructors: Eustrat Zhupa
Description: Abstract data types (e.g., sets, mappings, and graphs) and their implementation as concrete data structures in Java. Analysis of the running times of programs operating on such data structures, and basic techniques for program design, analysis, and proof of correctness (e.g., induction and recursion).

Lab and workshop required.

Prerequisites: CSC 171 or equivalent, MATH 150. May be taken concurrently with MATH 150 if CSC 171 prerequisite is satisfied.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 173-1 Computation & Formal Systems Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Wegmans Room 1400 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
85 		Capacity     
140
Instructors: George Ferguson
Description: An introduction to some of the most important formal models of computation, and their application to real-world computing problems.

Prerequisites: CSC 172 and MTH 150. AUDITS NOT ALLOWED.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 186-1 Video Game Development Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Gavett Hall Room 244 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
49 		Capacity     
50
Instructors: Thaddeus Pawlicki
Description: This course is a hands-on lab based introduction to software engineering and computer programming using the development of computer/video games as the application area. Topics will include mesh modeling, level design, asset management, shading, texturing, lighting, event scripting, character rigging, and particle effects.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 200-1 Undergraduate Problem Seminar Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: CSC 200-1 (P), CSC 200H-1
Instructors: Fatemeh Nargesian
Description:

Intensive seminar on cooperative problem solving. Overview of the subdisciplines and the research of the University of Rochester’s computer science faculty.  Instruction and practice on research methodology and procedures. The topic may vary from year to year. Students taking CSC 200H may have additional reading, assignments or projects. 200H is required for the Honors B.S. in Computer Science.

Students who participate or intend to participate in research are well advised to take CSC 200/200H.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 200H-1 Honors Undergraduate Problem Seminar Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: CSC 200-1 (P), CSC 200H-1
Instructors: Fatemeh Nargesian
Description:

Intensive seminar on cooperative problem solving. Overview of the subdisciplines and the research of the University of Rochester’s computer science faculty.  Instruction and practice on research methodology and procedures.  The topic may vary from year to year. taking CSC 200H may have additional reading, assignments or projects. Students who participate or intend to participate in research are well advised to take CSC 200/200H.

200H is required for the Honors B.S. in Computer Science.

CSC 200H students propose and complete a final project in cooperative problem solving in an area of computer science research.  They are required to attend computer science department colloquiums when their schedule permits.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 210-1 Web Programming Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Meliora Room 221 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
80 		Capacity     
80
Instructors: Andrew Read-McFarland
Description: The World Wide Web was born around 1990, so it is not much older than most of you. In this course, we will follow the growth of the Web from its toddler years, to early childhood, to its turbulent pre-teen and teenage years, and finally as it begins to mature as a young adult. Along this journey, you will learn influential Web technologies such as HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, the LAMP stack, XML, JSON, Ajax, WebSockets, and modern MVC frameworks. Even though you will be doing a lot of programming in this course, its purpose is not to teach you to become an expert in any particular language or framework. Web technologies change at a blistering pace, so specifics quickly get outdated. However, once you take this course and understand the fundamentals, you will be able to easily pick up new technologies on the fly.

Prerequisites: CSC 172. *No audits will be allowed for this course
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 211-1 Introduction to HCI Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Morey Room 525 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
40 		Capacity     
40
Instructors: Zhen Bai
Description: The goal of this course is to provide an introductory overview of the concepts, principles, methods and special topics of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). This course will help students to build a frame of reference of HCI approaches and apply them in conducting design practices for real-world problems. This course contains a combination of lectures, seminars and group projects. The lectures will cover origins of HCI and interaction design, user-centered design methods, usability evaluation and user experience. The seminars will be a combination of guest lecturers and student-led discussions to introduce special topics in HCI, which may include Augmented and Virtual Reality, Tangible User Interface, Human-Robot Interaction, learning technologies, and assistive technologies. The group project will take place throughout the course and provide an opportunity for students to apply and reflect on HCI methods and user-centered design processes through contextual inquiry, prototyping, evaluation, iteration and presentation.

Prerequisite: CSC 172 (required), CSC 214 (desired), or permission of the instructor.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 214-1 Mobile App Development Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1815 1930 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
60 		Capacity     
60
Instructors: Arthur Roolfs
Description: Coursework covers user interface designs and functional algorithms for mobile devices (iOS summer/fall, Android spring) and unique user interactions using multi-touch technologies. Object-oriented design including model-view-controller paradigm, memory management. Other topics include: object-oriented database API, animation, web services and performance considerations. 

Prerequisites: CSC 172
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 240-1 Data Mining Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Dewey Room 1101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
88 		Capacity     
95
Co-Located: CSC 240-1 (P), CSC 440-1, DSCC 240-1, DSCC 440-1, TCS 440-1
Instructors: Thaddeus Pawlicki
Description: Fundamental concepts and techniques of data mining, including data attributes, data visualization, data pre-processing, mining frequent patterns, association and correlation, classification methods, and cluster analysis. Advanced topics include outlier detection, stream mining, and social media data mining. CSC 440, a graduate-level course, requires additional readings and a course project.

Prerequisites will be strictly enforced: CSC171, CSC 172 and MTH 161.

Recommended: CSC 242 or CSC262; MTH165.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 242-1 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Wegmans Room 1400 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
130 		Capacity     
130
Co-Located: BCSC 232-1, CSC 242-1 (P), DSCC 242-1
Instructors: George Ferguson
Description: Introduces fundamental principles and techniques from Artificial Intelligence, including heuristic search, automated reasoning, handling uncertainty, and machine learning, to prepare students for advanced AI courses.

Prerequisites: CSC 172 and MTH 150; CSC 173 STRONGLY Recommended. AUDITS NOT ALLOWED.
Offered: Fall Spring
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CSC 243-1 Advanced Computational Neuroscience Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Meliora Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: BCSC 257-1 (P), BCSC 557-1, CSC 243-1, CSC 443-2, NSCI 257-1
Instructors: Ralf Haefner
Description: This is a seminar-style course for advanced undergraduate and graduate students covering multiple areas of computational neuroscience by weekly readings and student presentations. Many of the topics are deeper explorations of topics covered in CSC 241 Introduction to Computational Neuroscience, focusing on the sensory system, decision-making, action selection and active inference, especially from a probabilistic and normative perspective. The reading list is somewhat flexible and adaptable to student interest. There is an opportunity for a final project but this is not required.

Prerequisite: CSC 241 or permission of instructor
Offered: Spring
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CSC 246-1 Machine Learning Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
57 		Capacity     
68
Co-Located: CSC 246-1 (P), CSC 446-1, ECE 409-1, TCS 446-1
Instructors: Adam Purtee
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Mathematical foundations of classification, regression, and decision making. Supervised algorithms covered include perceptrons, logistic regression, support vector machines, and neural networks.  Directed and undirected graphical models.  Numerical parameter optimization, including gradient descent, expectation maximization, and other methods.  Introduction to reinforcement learning. Proofs covered as appropriate.  Significant programming projects will be assigned. 

This course involves a lot of math and algorithms.  You should know multivariable calculus,  linear algebra, and some algorithms.  No formal prerequisites but MATH 165, MATH 164, and CSC 242 strongly recommended.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 247-1 Natural Language Processing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Hylan Building Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
47 		Capacity     
48
Co-Located: BCSC 235-1, BCSC 435-1, CSC 247-1 (P), CSC 447-1, LING 247-1, LING 447-1, TCS 447-1
Instructors: Hangfeng He
Description: This course addresses issues of representing computing meaning from natural language, especially issues of understanding language in context using commonsense knowledge of the world. Topics will include a survey of English phrase structure and parsing, semantic representation (e.g., events, semantic roles, time, causality and speech acts), and theories and techniques for understanding language in context, including intention recognition, text understanding using knowledge of scripts and plans, and models of spoken dialogue systems (e.g., conversational agents such as Siri). CSC447, the graduate level version of the course, requires a substantial individual project.

Prerequisite: CSC 242
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 249-1 Machine Vision Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
47 		Capacity     
75
Co-Located: BCSC 236-1, BCSC 536-1, CSC 249-1 (P), CSC 449-1, ECE 449-1, TCS 449-1
Instructors: Jiebo Luo
Description: Introduction to computer vision, including camera models, basic image processing, pattern and object recognition, and elements of human vision. Specific topics include geometric issues, statistical models, Hough transforms, color theory, texture, and optic flow. CSC 449, a graduate-level course, requires additional readings and assignments.

Prerequisites: MATH 161 and CSC 242; MATH 165 strongly recommended
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 250-1 Data Science for Linguistics Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Hylan Building Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: CSC 250-1, CSC 450-1, LING 250-1 (P), LING 450-1
Instructors: Scott Grimm
Description: This course addresses linguistic research questions through data science techniques. The course will focus on developing skills to (i) acquire and process a variety of language data, from using established corpora to capturing data in the wild, and (ii) to investigate language use, particularly syntactic and semantic phenomena, through descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. A significant part of the course will be devoted to hands-on projects and will include developing familiarity with using the programming languages Python and R to acquire and explore linguistic data. Familiarity with statistics and/or computational linguistics is advantageous, but not necessary. Prerequisites: LING 110, and either LING 210, LING 220 or LING 225.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 252-1 Computer Organization Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
WF 1525 1640 Gavett Hall Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
68 		Capacity     
70
Co-Located: CSC 252-1 (P), CSC 452-1, TCS 452-1
Instructors: Yuhao Zhu
Description: Introduction to computer architecture and the layering of hardware/software systems. Topics include instruction set design; logical building blocks; computer arithmetic; processor organization; the memory hierarchy (registers, caches, main memory, and secondary storage); I/Obuses, devices, and interrupts; microcode and assembly language; virtual machines; the roles of the assembler, linker, compiler, and operating system; technological trends and the future of computing hardware. Several programming assignments required.

Prerequisites: MTH 150 and CSC 172
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 255-1 Software Analysis & Improv Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CSC 255-1 (P), CSC 455-1, ECE 455-1, TCS 455-1
Instructors: Sreepathi Pai
Description: Programming is the automation of information processing. Program analysis and transformation is the automation of programming itself---how much a program can understand and improve other programs. Because of the diversity and complexity of computer hardware, programmers increasingly depend on automation in compilers and other tools to deliver efficient and reliable software. This course combines fundamental principles and (hands-on) practical applications. Specific topics include data flow and dependence theories; static and dynamic program transformation including parallelization; memory and cache management; type checking and program verification; and performance analysis and modeling. The knowledge and practice will help students to become experts in software performance and correctness. Students taking the graduate level will have additional course requirements and a more difficult project.

Recommended prerequisites: CSC 252, CSC 254.
Offered: Spring
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CSC 258-1 Parallel & Distributed Systems Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Dewey Room 2110E 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: CSC 258-1 (P), CSC 458-1, TCS 458-1
Instructors: Chen Ding
Description: Principles of parallel and distributed systems, and the associated implementation and performance issues. Topics covered will include programming interfaces to parallel and distributed computing, interprocess communication, synchronization, and consistency models, fault tolerance and reliability, distributed process management, distributed file systems, multiprocessor architectures, parallel program optimization, and parallelizing compilers. Students taking this course at the 400 level will be required to complete additional readings and/or assignments.

Prerequisites: CSC 252 and (CSC 254 or CSC 256) or instructor permission
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 260-1 Technology & Climate Change Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1400 1640 Lechase Room 103 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: CSC 260-1 (P), CSC 460-1
Instructors: Ehsan Hoque
Description:
We currently add 51 billion tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere every year. We need to get it down to zero to stop the warming and avoid a cloud disaster. How?
In this class, we will discuss and explore the role of technology to bring innovative breakthroughs to combat this unique challenge. Examples include the use of machine learning techniques to better predict climate, visualizing the effects of extreme weather to create awareness, monitoring the emission of carbon with satellite imagery. The lectures will consist of discussions, reading papers, guest lecturers, and a final project. 
Prerequisite: CSC 242.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 261-1 Database Systems Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Dewey Room 2162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
73 		Capacity     
90
Co-Located: CSC 261-1 (P), CSC 461-1, DSCC 261-1, DSCC 461-1, TCS 461-1
Instructors: Eustrat Zhupa
Description: This course presents the fundamental concepts of database design and use. It provides a study of data models, data description languages, and query facilities including relational algebra and SQL, data normalization, transactions and their properties, physical data organization and indexing, security issues and object databases. It also looks at the new trends in databases. The knowledge of the above topics will be applied in the design and implementation of a database application using a target database management system as part of a semester-long group project.

Prerequisites: CSC 172; CSC 173 and CSC 252 recommended.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 263-1 Data Management Systems Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Gavett Hall Room 312 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
29 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: CSC 263-1 (P), CSC 463-1, DSCC 263-1, DSCC 463-1
Instructors: Fatemeh Nargesian
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: This course explores the internals of data engines. Topics covered will include the relational model; relational database design principles based on dependencies and normal forms; query execution; transactions; recovery; query optimization; parallel query processing; NoSQL. 

Restricted to CSC and DSCC majors only during initial registration period.

Prerequisites:CSC 173 and CSC 252 (or CSC 261)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 266-1 Frontiers in Deep Learning Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Meliora Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
31 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: CSC 266-1 (P), CSC 466-1
Instructors: Christopher Kanan
Description: Deep learning has revolutionized many areas of artificial intelligence, including computer vision, natural language understanding, and more. This course reviews some of the latest advancements in deep learning, with a focus on methods that overcome the need for vast amounts of labeled data. Topics covered may include, but are not limited to, self-supervised learning in vision and language, self-training methods (e.g., student-teacher networks), continual learning, foundation models (e.g., Stable Diffusion, GPT-3, CLIP, etc), learning from biased and long-tailed datasets, and theory topics related to generalization in deep learning (e.g., The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis, Deep Double Descent, etc.).

There are no formal requirements, but students are expected to know linear algebra, multivariate calculus, and have basic knowledge of deep learning, e.g, loss functions, optimization, regularization, multi-layer perceptron neural network architectures, etc.
Offered: Spring
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CSC 273W-1 Writing for Computer Science Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1650 1805 Meliora Room 218 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Joseph Loporcaro
Restrictions: Restriction_Majors Only: Undergraduate Computer Science
Description: In this course, students prepare, critique, and discuss written materials relevant to Computer Science. Will count as one of the two upper level writing requirements for Computer Science majors. If the course is closed, DO NOT email the professor.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 273W-2 Writing for Computer Science Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1515 Rettner Hall Room 307 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Joseph Loporcaro
Restrictions: Restriction_Majors Only: Undergraduate Computer Science
Description: In this course, students prepare, critique, and discuss written materials relevant to Computer Science. Will count as one of the two upper level writing requirements for Computer Science majors. If the course is closed, DO NOT email the professor.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 278-1 Computer Security Foundations Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1815 1930 Hylan Building Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: CSC 278-1 (P), CSC 478-1, TCS 478-1
Instructors: John Criswell
Description:

This course will teach students the foundations of computer security. Students will learn what security is, the design principles of secure systems, how security is enforced, and how security is compromised. Topics include access controls, information flow, basic applications of cryptography, buffer overflow attacks, and malware.

Prerequisites: CSC 252 or CSC 452 or ECE 200.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 280-1 Computer Models & Limitations Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Wegmans Room 1400 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
65 		Capacity     
80
Co-Located: CSC 280-1 (P), CSC 480-1, TCS 480-1
Instructors: Lane Hemaspaandra
Description:  This course studies fundamental computer models and their computational limitations. Finite-state machines and pumping lemmas, the context-free languages, Turing machines, decidable and Turing-recognizable languages, undecidability, NP-completeness.

Prerequisites include CSC 173 and MATH 150. YOU MUST REGISTER FOR A RECITATION WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN COURSE
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 282-1 Design & Analysis Efficient Algorithms Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Gavett Hall Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
70 		Capacity     
75
Co-Located: CSC 282-1 (P), CSC 482-1, TCS 482-1
Instructors: Eustrat Zhupa
Description:
How does one design programs and ascertain their efficiency? Greedy algorithms, dynamic programming, divide-and-conquer techniques, string processing, graph algorithms, mathematical algorithms. Introduction to NP-completeness and linear programming. Students taking this course at the 400 level may be required to complete additional tests, readings or assignments.
Prerequisites: (CSC 172 and MATH 150) or MATH172. Students MUST register for the recitation when registering for this course.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 286-1 Computational Complexity Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: CSC 286-1 (P), CSC 486-1, TCS 486-1
Instructors: Lane Hemaspaandra
Description: The difference between computable and uncomputable problems and between feasible and infeasible problems. Regarding the latter, what properties of a problem make it computationally simple? What properties of a problem may preclude its having efficient algorithms? How computationally hard are problems? Complete sets and low information content; P=NP?; unambiguous computation and one-way functions; reductions relating the complexity of problems; complexity classes and hierarchies.

Prerequisite: CSC 280
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 289-1 Algorithmic Game Theory Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Computer Studies Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
46 		Capacity     
60
Co-Located: CSC 289-1 (P), CSC 489-1
Instructors: Anson Kahng
Description:
This class will provide an introduction to topics at the intersection of computer science and economics, including game theory, auctions, incentive-compatible mechanism design, matching algorithms, human computation (e.g., crowdsourcing and peer prediction), trust and reputation systems, and social choice (voting) theory. We hope to convey the fact that the relationship between computer science and economics is a two-way street: It is important to consider incentives and strategic action are important when designing computation-intensive systems, and efficient and robust algorithms enable the deployment of impactful economic ideas.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with probability theory, single-variable calculus, linear algebra, and basics of theoretical computer science. No background in economic theory is assumed or required. Students should also be prepared to write code in Python. Please email the instructor with any questions.
Offered: Spring
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CSC 295-1 Quantum Computing Seminar Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
45
Instructors: Thaddeus Pawlicki
Description: This course covers special topics that are of current interest in the area of Quantum Computing. Topics vary by term.
Offered: Fall Spring
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CSC 299-1 Social Implications of Computing Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Rettner Hall Room 307 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: CSC 299-1 (P), CSC 299W-1
Instructors: Joseph Loporcaro
Description:
Computers and the Internet, perhaps more than any other technology, have transformed society over the past 50 years.  In developed nations, at least, they have enabled dramatic increases in human productivity; an explosion of options for news, entertainment, and communication; and fundamental breakthroughs in almost every branch of science and engineering.  At the same time, they have contributed to unprecedented threats to privacy; whole new categories of crime and anti-social behavior; major disruptions in the job market; and the large-scale concentration of risk into systems capable of catastrophic failure.  In this discussion- and writing-oriented class, we will consider all of this and more, with the goal of better understanding how to shape technological change in ways that maximize the benefits and minimize the costs. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 299W-1 W Social Implications of Computing Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Rettner Hall Room 307 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: CSC 299-1 (P), CSC 299W-1
Instructors: Joseph Loporcaro
Description: Computers and the Internet, perhaps more than any other technology, have transformed society over the past 50 years. In developed nations, at least, they have enabled dramatic increases in human productivity; an explosion of options for news, entertainment, and communication; and fundamental breakthroughs in almost every branch of science and engineering. At the same time, they have contributed to unprecedented threats to privacy; whole new categories of crime and anti-social behavior; major disruptions in the job market; and the large-scale concentration of risk into systems capable of catastrophic failure. In this discussion- and writing-oriented class, we will consider all of this and more, with the goal of better understanding how to shape technological change in ways that maximize the benefits and minimize the costs. This course will be asynchronous. CSC299 can be taken as a ULW or not.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 392-1 Practicum Spring 2023 Lecture Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Description: Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 402-1 Network Science Analysis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Computer Studies Room 601 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: CSC 402-1 (P), DSCC 442-1, ECE 442-1
Instructors: Gonzalo Mateos Buckstein
Description: The science of networks is an emerging discipline of great importance that combines graph theory, probability and statistics, and facets of engineering and the social sciences. This course will provide students with the mathematical tools and computational training to understand large-scale networks in the current era of Big Data. It will introduce basic network models and structural descriptors, network dynamics and prediction of processes evolving on graphs, modern algorithms for topology inference, community and anomaly detection, as well as fundamentals of social network analysis. All concepts and theories will be illustrated with numerous applications and case studies from technological, social, biological, and information networks. Prerequisites:

Some mathematical maturity, comfortable with linear algebra, probability, and analysis (e.g., MTH164-165). Exposure to programming and Matlab useful, but not required.
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CSC 404-1 Multiprocessor Arch Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
WF 1525 1640 Hylan Building Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
27 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: CSC 404-1, ECE 204-1 (P), ECE 404-1, TEE 404-1
Instructors: Michael Huang
Description: This course provides in-depth discussions of the design and implementation issues of multiprocessor system architecture. Topics include cache coherence, memory consistency, interconnect, their interplay and impact on the design of high-performance micro-architectures. prerequisite

ECE 200 or CSC 252 or permission of instructor
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 414-1 Selected Topics in Augmented and Virtual Reality Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Todd Union Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
0
Co-Located: BCSC 571-1, BME 413-1, CSC 414-1, CVSC 535-1, ECE 411-1 (P), NSCI 416-1, OPT 438-1
Instructors: Mujdat Cetin; Chenliang Xu; Ross Maddox
Restrictions: Instructor permission required for Undergraduates - AS&E
Description:
This is the second course offered as part of the PhD training program on augmented and virtual reality. It builds on the first course, Introduction to Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR). The goal of the course is to provide exposure to problems in the AR/VR domain addressed by various disciplines. The course consists of three one-month long modules in a semester. Modules engage students in particular aspects of AR/VR or hands-on experience on AR/VR. Modules to be offered in various years include: fundamentals of optics for AR/VR; AR/VR in the silicon; foundations of visual perception in the context of AR/VR; computer audition and acoustic rendering; measuring the human brain; deep learning and visual recognition for AR/VR; brain-computer interfacing in a virtual environment; 3D interfaces and interaction; AR/VR for collaborative education & professional training. In Spring 2023, the following three modules will be offered: 1) Deep learning and visual recognition for AR/VR. (Prof. Chenliang Xu) Recent developments in deep learning have significantly advanced state-of-the-art visual recognition in problems such as object detection, activity recognition, and semantic segmentation. In this module, students will learn core concepts in deep learning, including convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks. They will receive hands-on experience using popular deep-learning libraries like PyTorch to build visual recognition algorithms for AR/VR systems. 2) Measuring the human brain. (Prof. Ross Maddox) This module will introduce students to studies of human brain function using non-invasive methods. It will focus on experimental paradigms and data analysis in the time and frequency domains. Neural encoding and decoding models and applications to brain-computer interfaces will also be discussed. The module will have a mixed format, with lectures and labs. Lab exercises will be based on analyzing real data from human subjects. 3) Professional encounters with leading AR/VR researchers. This module will involve a series of seminars and discussion sessions with leading AR/VR researchers from academia and industry. Prerequisites: ECE 410 or OPT 410 or BME 410 or NSCI 415 or CSC 413 or CVSC 534
INSTRUCTORS: Chenliang Xu; Ross Maddox; Mujdat Cetin
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CSC 440-1 Data Mining Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Dewey Room 1101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
88 		Capacity     
95
Co-Located: CSC 240-1 (P), CSC 440-1, DSCC 240-1, DSCC 440-1, TCS 440-1
Instructors: Thaddeus Pawlicki
Description: Fundamental concepts and techniques of data mining, including data attributes, data visualization, data pre-processing, mining frequent patterns, association and correlation, classification methods, and cluster analysis. Advanced topics include outlier detection, stream mining, and social media data mining. CSC 440, a graduate-level course, requires additional readings and a course project.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 443-2 Advanced Computational Neuroscience Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Meliora Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: BCSC 257-1 (P), BCSC 557-1, CSC 243-1, CSC 443-2, NSCI 257-1
Instructors: Ralf Haefner
Description: This is a seminar-style course for advanced undergraduate and graduate students covering multiple areas of computational neuroscience by weekly readings and student presentations. Many of the topics are deeper explorations of topics covered in Introduction to Computational Neuroscience, focusing on the sensory system, decision-making, action selection and active inference, especially from a probabilistic and normative perspective. The reading list is somewhat flexible and adaptable to student interest. There is an opportunity for a final project but this is not required.

Prerequisite: CSC 241/441 or permission of instructor
Offered: Spring
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CSC 446-1 Machine Learning Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
57 		Capacity     
68
Co-Located: CSC 246-1 (P), CSC 446-1, ECE 409-1, TCS 446-1
Instructors: Adam Purtee
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Mathematical foundations of classification, regression, and decision making. Supervised algorithms covered include perceptrons, logistic regression, support vector machines, and neural networks.  Directed and undirected graphical models.  Numerical parameter optimization, including gradient descent, expectation maximization, and other methods.  Introduction to reinforcement learning. Proofs covered as appropriate.  Significant programming projects will be assigned. 

This course involves a lot of math and algorithms.  You should know multivariable calculus,  linear algebra, and some algorithms.   No formal prerequisites but MATH 165, MATH 164, and CSC 242 strongly recommended.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 447-1 Natural Language Processing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Hylan Building Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
47 		Capacity     
48
Co-Located: BCSC 235-1, BCSC 435-1, CSC 247-1 (P), CSC 447-1, LING 247-1, LING 447-1, TCS 447-1
Instructors: Hangfeng He
Description: This course addresses issues of representing computing meaning from natural language, especially issues of understanding language in context using commonsense knowledge of the world. Topics will include a survey of English phrase structure and parsing, semantic representation (e.g., events, semantic roles, time, causality and speech acts), and theories and techniques for understanding language in context, including intention recognition, text understanding using knowledge of scripts and plans, and models of spoken dialogue systems (e.g., conversational agents such as Siri). CSC447, the graduate level version of the course, requires a substantial individual project.

Prerequisites: CSC 242
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 449-1 Machine Vision Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
47 		Capacity     
75
Co-Located: BCSC 236-1, BCSC 536-1, CSC 249-1 (P), CSC 449-1, ECE 449-1, TCS 449-1
Instructors: Jiebo Luo
Description: Introduction to computer vision, including camera models, basic image processing, pattern and object recognition, and elements of human vision. Specific topics include geometric issues, statistical models, Hough transforms, color theory, texture, and optic flow. CSC 449, a graduate-level course, requires additional readings and assignments.

Prerequisites: MATH 161 and CSC 242; MATH 165 strongly recommended
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 450-1 Data Science for Linguistics Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Hylan Building Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: CSC 250-1, CSC 450-1, LING 250-1 (P), LING 450-1
Instructors: Scott Grimm
Description: This course addresses linguistic research questions through data science techniques. The course will focus on developing skills to (i) acquire and process a variety of language data, from using established corpora to capturing Twitter feeds, and (ii) to investigate language use, particularly syntactic and semantic phenomena, through descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. A significant part of the course will be devoted to hands-on projects and will include developing familiarity with using the programming languages Python and R to acquire and explore linguistic data. Familiarity with statistics and/or computational linguistics is advantageous, but not necessary. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 452-1 Computer Organization Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
WF 1525 1640 Gavett Hall Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
68 		Capacity     
70
Co-Located: CSC 252-1 (P), CSC 452-1, TCS 452-1
Instructors: Yuhao Zhu
Description: Introduction to computer architecture and the layering of hardware/software systems. Topics include instruction set design; logical building blocks; computer arithmetic; processor organization; the memory hierarchy (registers, caches, main memory, and secondary storage); I/Obuses, devices, and interrupts; microcode and assembly language; virtual machines; the roles of the assembler, linker, compiler, and operating system; technological trends and the future of computing hardware. Several programming assignments required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 455-1 Software Analysis & Improv Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CSC 255-1 (P), CSC 455-1, ECE 455-1, TCS 455-1
Instructors: Sreepathi Pai
Description: Programming is the automation of information processing. Program analysis and transformation is the automation of programming itself---how much a program can understand and improve other programs. Because of the diversity and complexity of computer hardware, programmers increasingly depend on automation in compilers and other tools to deliver efficient and reliable software. This course combines fundamental principles and (hands-on) practical applications. Specific topics include data flow and dependence theories; static and dynamic program transformation including parallelization; memory and cache management; type checking and program verification; and performance analysis and modeling. The knowledge and practice will help students to become experts in software performance and correctness. Students taking the graduate level will have additional course requirements and a more difficult project.
Offered: Spring
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CSC 458-1 Parallel & Distributed Systems Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Dewey Room 2110E 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: CSC 258-1 (P), CSC 458-1, TCS 458-1
Instructors: Chen Ding
Description: Principles of parallel and distributed systems, and the associated implementation and performance issues. Topics covered will include programming interfaces to parallel and distributed computing, interprocess communication, synchronization, and consistency models, fault tolerance and reliability, distributed process management, distributed file systems, multiprocessor architectures, parallel program optimization, and parallelizing compilers. Students taking this course at the 400 level will be required to complete additional readings and/or assignments.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 460-1 Technology & Climate Change Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1400 1640 Lechase Room 103 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: CSC 260-1 (P), CSC 460-1
Instructors: Ehsan Hoque
Description:
We currently add 51 billion tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere every year. We need to get it down to zero to stop the warming and avoid a cloud disaster. How?
In this class, we will discuss and explore the role of technology to bring innovative breakthroughs to combat this unique challenge. Examples include the use of machine learning techniques to better predict climate, visualizing the effects of extreme weather to create awareness, monitoring the emission of carbon with satellite imagery. The lectures will consist of discussions, reading papers, guest lecturers, and a final project. 
Prerequisite: CSC 242, or equivalent.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 461-1 Database Systems Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Dewey Room 2162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
73 		Capacity     
90
Co-Located: CSC 261-1 (P), CSC 461-1, DSCC 261-1, DSCC 461-1, TCS 461-1
Instructors: Eustrat Zhupa
Description: This course presents the fundamental concepts of database design and use. It provides a study of data models, data description languages, and query facilities including relational algebra and SQL, data normalization, transactions and their properties, physical data organization and indexing, security issues and object databases. It also looks at the new trends in databases. The knowledge of the above topics will be applied in the design and implementation of a database application using a target database management system as part of a semester-long group project.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 463-1 Data Management Systems Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Gavett Hall Room 312 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
29 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: CSC 263-1 (P), CSC 463-1, DSCC 263-1, DSCC 463-1
Instructors: Fatemeh Nargesian
Description: This course explores the internals of data engines. Topics covered will include the relational model; relational database design principles based on dependencies and normal forms; query execution; transactions; recovery; query optimization; parallel query processing; NoSQL. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 466-1 Frontiers in Deep Learning Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Meliora Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
31 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: CSC 266-1 (P), CSC 466-1
Instructors: Christopher Kanan
Description: Deep learning has revolutionized many areas of artificial intelligence, including computer vision, natural language understanding, and more. This course reviews some of the latest advancements in deep learning, with a focus on methods that overcome the need for vast amounts of labeled data. Topics covered may include, but are not limited to, self-supervised learning in vision and language, self-training methods (e.g., student-teacher networks), continual learning, foundation models (e.g., Stable Diffusion, GPT-3, CLIP, etc), learning from biased and long-tailed datasets, and theory topics related to generalization in deep learning (e.g., The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis, Deep Double Descent, etc.).

There are no formal requirements, but students are expected to know linear algebra, multivariate calculus, and have basic knowledge of deep learning, e.g, loss functions, optimization, regularization, multi-layer perceptron neural network architectures, etc.
Offered: Spring
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CSC 478-1 Computer Security Foundations Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1815 1930 Hylan Building Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: CSC 278-1 (P), CSC 478-1, TCS 478-1
Instructors: John Criswell
Description:

This course will teach students the foundations of computer security. Students will learn what security is, the design principles of secure systems, how security is enforced, and how security is compromised. Topics include access controls, information flow, basic applications of cryptography, buffer overflow attacks, and malware.

Prerequisites: CSC 252 or CSC 452 or ECE 200.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 480-1 Computer Models & Limitations Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Wegmans Room 1400 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
65 		Capacity     
80
Co-Located: CSC 280-1 (P), CSC 480-1, TCS 480-1
Instructors: Lane Hemaspaandra
Description: This course studies fundamental computer models and their computational limitations. Finite-state machines and pumping lemmas, the context-free languages, Turing machines, decidable and Turing-recognizable languages, undecidability, NP-completeness.

Prerequisites: CSC 173 and MTH 150. YOU MUST REGISTER FOR A RECITATION WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN COURSE
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 482-1 Design & Analysis Efficient Algorithms Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Gavett Hall Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
70 		Capacity     
75
Co-Located: CSC 282-1 (P), CSC 482-1, TCS 482-1
Instructors: Eustrat Zhupa
Description: How does one design programs and ascertain their efficiency? Divide-and-conquer techniques, string processing, graph algorithms, mathematical algorithms. Advanced data structures such as balanced tree schemes. Introduction to NP-completeness and intractable combinatorial search, optimization, and decision problems.

Prerequisites: (CSC 172 and MTH 150) or MTH172. Students MUST register for a recitation when registering for this course.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 486-1 Computational Complexity Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: CSC 286-1 (P), CSC 486-1, TCS 486-1
Instructors: Lane Hemaspaandra
Description: The difference between computable and uncomputable problems and between feasible and infeasible problems. Regarding the latter, what properties of a problem make it computationally simple? What properties of a problem may preclude its having efficient algorithms? How computationally hard are problems? Complete sets and low information content; P=NP?; unambiguous computation and one-way functions; reductions relating the complexity of problems; complexity classes and hierarchies.

Prerequisites: CSC 280
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 489-1 Algorithmic Game Theory Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Computer Studies Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
46 		Capacity     
60
Co-Located: CSC 289-1 (P), CSC 489-1
Instructors: Anson Kahng
Description:
This class will provide an introduction to topics at the intersection of computer science and economics, including game theory, auctions, incentive-compatible mechanism design, matching algorithms, human computation (e.g., crowdsourcing and peer prediction), trust and reputation systems, and social choice (voting) theory. We hope to convey the fact that the relationship between computer science and economics is a two-way street: It is important to consider incentives and strategic action are important when designing computation-intensive systems, and efficient and robust algorithms enable the deployment of impactful economic ideas.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with probability theory, single-variable calculus, linear algebra, and basics of theoretical computer science. No background in economic theory is assumed or required. Students should also be prepared to write code in Python. Please email the instructor with any questions.
Offered: Fall Spring
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CSC 491-1 Independent Study Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
1
Instructors: Michael Scott
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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 494T-1 Master's Transitnal Intnshp Spring 2023 0.5 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 577-1 Advanced Topics in Computer Vision Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Hylan Building Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Chenliang Xu
Description: This is a seminar course with varying topics in the area of artificial Intelligence. May not be taught every year.

This course covers advanced research topics in computer vision with an emphasis on learning structured representations and embeddings. Approaches for learning from unimodal (e.g., images and videos), and multimodal data (e.g., vision and language, vision and audio) will be covered and include topics from structured predications, deep learning and others. The course will be a mix of lecture, student presentation and discussion.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 579-1 Machine-checked Proofs using Coq Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 940 1055 Lechase Room 103 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Chen Ding
Description: In recent years, runnable proofs have been shown successful for non-trivial theorems, algorithms, and programs.   This seminar will use the Coq interactive theorem prover to learn, practice and explore the theory and applications of writing machine-checked proofs.  Topics include functional programming, proof by induction, proof tactics, logic in Coq, propositions, and the Curry-Howard Correspondence.  Students enrolling in the course are expected to have in-depth knowledge in either programming languages (CSC 253, 254 or 255) or mathematical logic.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 597-1 Computer Science Colloquium Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1150 1305 Wegmans Room 1400 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
No Cap
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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CSC 899A-1 Masters Dissrttn in Absentia Spring 2023 Lecture Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Center for Visual Science
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CVSC 110-1 Neural Foundations of Behavior Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Hoyt Hall Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
131 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: BCSC 110-1 (P), CVSC 110-1, PSYC 110-1
Instructors: Kevin Davis
Description: Introduces the structure and organization of the brain, and its role in perception, movement, thinking, and other behavior. Topics include the brain as a special kind of computer, localization of function, effects of brain damage and disorders, differences between human and animal brains, sex differences, perception and control of movement, sleep, regulation of body states and emotions, and development and aging. No prerequisites.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CVSC 208-1 Lab in Perception & Cognition Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1530 1830 Meliora Room 178 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: BCSC 208-1 (P), CVSC 208-1, PSYC 208-1
Instructors: Kevin Davis
Description: Introduces behavioral and psychophysical studies of perceptual and cognitive phenomena. Students perform, analyze, interpret, and report results from experiments that move from reproducing classic phenomena to conducting new studies independently.

Prerequisites: STAT 212 and either BCSC 151 or BCSC 153
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CVSC 504-1 Sensory Systems Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 930 1200 Meliora Room 269 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: BCSC 504-1 (P), CVSC 504-1
Instructors: Gregory DeAngelis
Description: An introduction to the functioning of the senses and the physiological mechanisms underlying them. Topics include vision, audition, somatosensation, the vestibular system, guestation and olfaction, with an emphasis on the general principles that govern mammalian sensory systems.
Offered: Spring
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CVSC 528-1 Special Topics in Vision Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1400 1640 Meliora Room 218 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: BCSC 528-1 (P), CVSC 528-1
Instructors: Duje Tadin
Description: Advanced seminar on a chosen problem in vision sciences. In previous years topics have included motion perception, stereopsis, color vision and visuo-motor control. Readings for the course are drawn from the scientific literature in the topic being covered. Students are typically required to lead discussions on papers.
Offered: Fall Spring
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CVSC 535-1 Selected Topics in Augmented and Virtual Reality Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Todd Union Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Co-Located: BCSC 571-1, BME 413-1, CSC 414-1, CVSC 535-1, ECE 411-1 (P), NSCI 416-1, OPT 438-1
Instructors: Mujdat Cetin; Chenliang Xu; Ross Maddox
Restrictions: Instructor permission required for Undergraduates - AS&E
Description:
This is the second course offered as part of the PhD training program on augmented and virtual reality. It builds on the first course, Introduction to Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR). The goal of the course is to provide exposure to problems in the AR/VR domain addressed by various disciplines. The course consists of three one-month long modules in a semester. Modules engage students in particular aspects of AR/VR or hands-on experience on AR/VR. Modules to be offered in various years include: fundamentals of optics for AR/VR; AR/VR in the silicon; foundations of visual perception in the context of AR/VR; computer audition and acoustic rendering; measuring the human brain; deep learning and visual recognition for AR/VR; brain-computer interfacing in a virtual environment; 3D interfaces and interaction; AR/VR for collaborative education & professional training. In Spring 2023, the following three modules will be offered: 1) Deep learning and visual recognition for AR/VR. (Prof. Chenliang Xu) Recent developments in deep learning have significantly advanced state-of-the-art visual recognition in problems such as object detection, activity recognition, and semantic segmentation. In this module, students will learn core concepts in deep learning, including convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks. They will receive hands-on experience using popular deep-learning libraries like PyTorch to build visual recognition algorithms for AR/VR systems. 2) Measuring the human brain. (Prof. Ross Maddox) This module will introduce students to studies of human brain function using non-invasive methods. It will focus on experimental paradigms and data analysis in the time and frequency domains. Neural encoding and decoding models and applications to brain-computer interfaces will also be discussed. The module will have a mixed format, with lectures and labs. Lab exercises will be based on analyzing real data from human subjects. 3) Professional encounters with leading AR/VR researchers. This module will involve a series of seminars and discussion sessions with leading AR/VR researchers from academia and industry. Prerequisites: ECE 410 or OPT 410 or BME 410 or NSCI 415 or CSC 413 or CVSC 534
INSTRUCTORS: Chenliang Xu; Ross Maddox; Mujdat Cetin
Offered: Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Dance
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DANC 106-1 Pilates Lab Spring 2023 1.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1025 1140 Sloan Performing Arts Center Room B026 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
6
Instructors: Rose Beauchamp
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description:
In this Pilates Lab, students will gain a working knowledge of the Pilates method as it relates to dance training.  Students will be introduced to the 6 Essential Principles of Pilates — Centering, Concentration, Control, Precision, Breath, and Flow. Focus will be placed on becoming familiar with the equipment available and fostering the safe approach to its use.  
The course will address alignment, core support, stabilization, mobilization and flexibility as it integrates Pilates with other dance + conditioning practices. Only students who take Pilates Lab will be allowed to work independently in the lab. For Majors and Minors or permission of instructor”.
Offered: Spring
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DANC 109-1 Costume Design for Dance Spring 2023 1.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Sloan Performing Arts Center Room B025 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
8
Instructors: Rose Beauchamp
Description:
In this class, students will learn the basics of costume design for dance. Students will gain hands on experience in sewing and costume making as they explore elemental design concepts including color, texture, and line. Students will take on the role of costume designer for the Program of Dance + Movement’s dance concert, working with choreographers to envision, design and craft costumes.
Offered: Fall Spring
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DANC 110-1 Beginning Dance Techniques Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
22 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Anne Wilcox
Description: Introduction to dance technique, specifically in Jazz, Ballet and Contemporary Modern Dance. Emphasis will be on the development of basic skills, energy, strength, control, breath, alignment, continuity and connectivity, and rhythmic and bodily awareness. No prior training is necessary or expected.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DANC 114-1 Introduction to Yoga Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 103 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Cloria Sutton-Dowdell
Restrictions: Not open to seniors- AS&E
Description: Yoga is defined as union, the uniting together of ourselves in all aspects- body, mind, heart, spirit. This class introduces the student to a hatha yoga method which integrates a dynamic and engaging approach to living through practicing on and off the mat. The goal of this class is to learn how to create a deeper, more enlivened relationship to ones self through honoring ones abilities and limitations, while growing ones skills and sensitivity in the supportive environment of the class community. Students will engage with principles of attitude, alignment and action in a full range of hatha yoga poses, breathing techniques, readings on yoga philosophy, reflection, journaling and discussion. Through this ongoing process, students of yoga are encouraged to cultivate a more expansive and clear perception of self and others. Attendance in selected workshops and performances are required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DANC 150-1 Beginning Contemporary Dance Technique Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
18
Description: Focus is on contemporary dance, a form that is an evolving exploration of expression through movement. It will blend the challenges of full-bodied, momentum-driven dancing with a sense of ones own self-awareness and discovery. Through rigorous dancing, move beyond not only physical, but also artistic boundaries and dimensions.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DANC 187-1 Hip-Hop: Dance, Culture, and History Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1830 2100 Todd Union Room 107 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: James Levy
Description: This beginner level dance course introduces the fundamental values, practices and movements of hip-hop dance. This course will focus on foundations and origins of hip-hop and street dance culture, and how each relates to today's current definitions of hip-hop and freestyle dance. The class will be explored through lecture and conversations, as well as movement participation by the students with choreography instruction and freestyle drills led by the instructor, plus related video and/or reading assignments as they pertain to each week’s lesson. Students will be challenged and encouraged to apply historical and practical knowledge of hip-hop in order to understand its influences on the world around them.
Offered: Spring
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DANC 190-1 Dances of the Middle East: Folkloric/Bedouin Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1830 1945 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: DANC 190-1 (P), GSWS 190-1
Instructors: Katrina Scott; Dylaina Young
Description: Traditional Folkloric roots of Middle Eastern Dance, focusing on specific Bedouin dance styles of North Africa (Raks Shaabi). Discourse and research will address issues of gender and body image. Improving strength, flexibility and self-awareness of the body, the class work will include meditative movement, dance technique, choreography and improvisation. No prior dance experience necessary.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DANC 195-1 World Dance:Movement as Culture Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Mariah Steele
Description: Exploration of world cultures through dance. Dance literacy through movement and embodied dance history. Investigates historical and anthropological significance of dance as well as provides an experience of the movement qualities of different world cultures.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DANC 204-1 Contact Improv & Culture Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Roy Wood
Description: Rooted in dance, the martial arts and studies of body development and awareness, students will use weight, momentum, and inertia to move each other freely through space. Solo and duet skills such as rolling, falling, balance, counter-balance, jumping, weight sharing, and spirals will be explored to facilitate open dancing. Reading and writing assignments will explore the history and practice of contact improvisation and how it deals with physical ability, gender, social connection, and the students relationship to their own culture. Classes will primarily involve physical movement, but some time will be spent on discussion of the class exercises, readings, and personal experiences. In addition to regular class time, additional labs or jams will be scheduled approximately biweekly.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DANC 211-1 Tai Chi Explorations Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Robert Loughridge
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Dancers, musicians, actors, painters, philosophers, poets, warriors, healers, and artists of every discipline historically have utilized the Chinese internal arts of Tai Chi and Qi Gong as tools for the mobilization of qi, or energy, in order to achieve health, healing, and mind-body-spirit integration. This course combines movement, meditative, and breathing exercises and traditional forms with readings, video viewings, creative exercises, exploratory projects, and discussions of literature and philosophy to explore how the practice and philosophy of these transformative arts can lead to mental and physical balance, body-mind integration, self-discovery, creative expression, and peak athletic and enhanced artistic performance. (Four Credit Hours).
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DANC 218-1 Into the Present Moment Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 840 1010 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
14
Instructors: Debra Corea
Description:

This experiential course invites pausing and reflecting on the habits of mind. Cultivate awareness of the present moment, which is the only moment available to learn and live. Students will be guided in mindfulness and insight techniques, relaxation, and other mindfulness practices. Incorporating mindfulness into daily life, class discussion, reading, and writing assignments will support understanding and personal growth. To facilitate establishing a personal practice, attendance will be required at DANC 218 meditation labs on specified Fridays. You must register for Lab when registering for the main section. Cluster: Mind-Body Somatics
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DANC 225-1 Yoga II Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1025 1140 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
W 1025 1140 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 103 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Heather Acomb
Description: In this course, students with prior yoga and/or dance experience will learn how to refine their skills through a continued exploration of asanas, pranayama, philosophy, and meditation. We will explore a more rigorous vinyasa flow practice, resulting in students developing more clarity regarding alignment, breath support, core aliveness, and, ultimately, body/self-awareness. While this is an individualized practice, the importance of community will be emphasized throughout as students share aspects of their practice with each other. Readings, discussion, and reflective writing are inherent to deepening ones practice.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DANC 230-1 Living Anatomy, Living Yoga Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1220 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
14
Instructors: Debra Corea
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Freshly experience inhabiting a human body and its postural alignment through the deep work of noticing and embracing anatomical processes. A counter-pose to the pressures of college life, discover embodiment as a resource for self-awareness, support, ease, and stress relief. Show up, slow down, pay attention, meditate, feel, sense, and relax. Explore form and the nature of mind through yogic practices. Color anatomical drawings, read about human structures, reflect on one’s unique living anatomy, write responses, join inquiry discussions, and adopt simple daily practices outside of class. Students are required to schedule a 1:1 meeting with the instructor outside of regular class time to design a project based on their distinct interests and needs. This class incorporates various aspects of the 8 limbs of yoga, particularly self-study. For a more movement focused yoga course see DANC 114 and DANC 225. Contact the instructor for more information and admittance to the course. Open to Juniors and Seniors. Cluster: (H1DAN009) Mind-Body Somatics
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DANC 233-1 Climate Interventions: Performing Arts + New Media Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Rettner Hall Room 307 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
TR 1230 1345 Todd Union Room 107 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: DANC 233-1 (P), DMST 230-1, EHUM 233-1, SUST 220-1
Instructors: Rose Beauchamp; Stephanie Ashenfelder
Description: This humanities course based in the arts combines the study of performing, visual arts and new media with history and theory to convey a breadth of stories about the human experience of climate change. In this interdisciplinary, collaborative course, students will be introduced to the multi-faceted use of the arts in designing for and expressing a vision for a sustainable future. Working with community partners, our research and story collection in the Adirondack park will be used to inspire projects in the course.  Collaboration, design thinking, and the iterative design process will be used to produce performances and art work that respond to the stories of the changing climate in the Adirondack park. It will move through multiple units of theoretical study as students simultaneously work on their creative projects. The course will include an optional trip to the Adirondack Park to engage with our community partners.
Offered: Spring
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DANC 242-1 Lighting Design For Dance Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1530 1830 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
6
Instructors: Seth Reiser
Description: This is an introductory design course aimed at giving students exposure to light as a medium, lighting design, lighting equipment, and visual story telling for performance through class discussion, and practical work. This is a 2 credit course and meets throughout the semester from 3:30pm-6:30pm

on Fridays. Students will be required to attend dance performances and will help install the light plot. The class is built around specific performance dates that will provide the students with an opportunity to light a dance piece.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DANC 251-1 Jazz Dance: Context & Practice Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 O'Brien Residence Hall Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Cheryl Johnson
Description: This course is open to beginning & intermediate level jazz dancers and will include an in-depth exploration of vernacular jazz movement and its relationship to jazz music. Through inter-active discussion, movement, and research we will investigate the context, history, applications, and societal impact of jazz dance in America and throughout the world. Technique classes will blend full-bodied momentum-driven dancing with subtlety, rhythmic challenges, and self-expression. Emphasis will be on a working knowledge of the elements of jazz, embodiment of rhythm, accent, dynamics, and disciplining the body to move with clarity and sound anatomical principles. A range of styles of jazz music will be used for performing class sequences and improvisations. Reading, writing, video viewing, class discussions, and attendance at live concerts will hone skills of observation, movement analysis and interpretation of jazz dance.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DANC 253-1 West African Dance: Context & Practice Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AAAS 234-1, DANC 253-1 (P)
Instructors: Kerfala Bangoura
Description: Experience dancing African styles from traditional cultures of Guinea, West Africa, as well as studying cultural history and context from which and in which they are practiced and performed. Technical emphasis will focus on musicality and complex choreographicarrangement. Students will practice dances and drum songs. Required outside work includes performance attendance, video viewing, text and article analysis, research and written work.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DANC 266-1 Intermediate Contemporary Dance Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: DANC 266-1 (P), DANC 267-1
Instructors: Anne Wilcox
Description: Continuing technical development and comprehension and integration of theory into practice is the focus in this course. Students will practice contemporary dance experientially through examining dance concepts influenced by Laban/Bartenieff theories and by exploring complex choreographic combinations. Classes will explore continuity and connectivity, patterns of total body organization, efficiency of movement, momentum, musculo-skeletal anatomy, strength, alignment, weight sensing, rhythm and somatic practices to develop and improve technical skills. We will also investigate subtlety and individual expression in performance. Experience in dance required. Having already taken DANC 250 is helpful.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DANC 267-1 Advanced Contemporary Dance Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
5
Co-Located: DANC 266-1 (P), DANC 267-1
Instructors: Anne Wilcox
Description: Continuing technical development and comprehension and integration of theory into practice is the focus in this course. Students will practice contemporary dance experientially through examining dance concepts influenced by Laban/Bartenieff theories and by exploring complex choreographic combinations. Classes will explore continuity and connectivity, patterns of total body organization, efficiency of movement, momentum, musculo-skeletal anatomy, strength, alignment, weight sensing, rhythm and somatic practices to deepen the investigation and mastery of technical skills. We will also continue to work on deepening the understanding or artistry as it pertains to subtlety and individual expression in performance. Pre-requisite: DANC 266: Intermediate Contemporary Dance
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DANC 268-1 Intermediate Contemporary Ballet Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 O'Brien Residence Hall Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Alaina Olivieri
Description: Practice and performance of classical and contemporary ballet with a contemporary approach in order to serve the dancer of any style of movement. Within the ballet form, classes will explore efficiency of movement, breath, anatomical mechanics, strength, alignment and through-line, weight, rhythmic accuracy, clarity of space, shape and effort, and somatic practices to develop and improve technical skills..
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DANC 269-1 Advanced Contemporary Ballet Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 O'Brien Residence Hall Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Alaina Olivieri
Description: Practice and performance of classical and contemporary ballet with a contemporary approach in order to serve the dancer of any style of movement. Within the ballet form, classes will explore efficiency of movement, breath, anatomical mechanics, strength, alignment and through-line, weight, rhythmic accuracy, clarity of space, shape and effort, and somatic practices to develop and improve technical skills. Prerequisites: DANC 268 or DANC 252 or permission from Instructor
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DANC 271-1 Capoeira II: Music in Motion Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1820 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Todd Russell
Description: Deeper study of Capoeira. This second level will find students continuing to build strength, coordination, rhythm, and balance. Students will also become further involved with the instrumentation of Capoeira. Readings and discussions will explore into historical events and look at Capoeira and it's Afro-Brazilian spirituality, liberation and cultural revolution throughout the ages. Each class involves daily physical and music training.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DANC 276-1 Consent in Performance: Me too...where do we go from here? Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 940 1055 Todd Union Room 107 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: DANC 276-1, ENGL 279-1 (P), GSWS 274-1, OP 280-1
Instructors: Sara Penner
Description:
“United States law says “Consent and agency over one’s body is a given in the work space.”  How, then, can the performance workspace acknowledge and honor our boundaries, while nurturing us to risk, grow, and create our truest, bravest work?   How can we as artists learn strategies to poetize the uncomfortable while honoring our boundaries?  In this course, we study the history and evolution of consent in performance, allowing students to learn about personal agency, self-advocacy, and how to foster and navigate healthy collaboration across disciplines. The class will give young artists the space to discover and articulate their boundaries through a variety of group exercises and opportunities for self-reflection.  Lectures will cover intimacy direction and rehearsal tools, discussions and guest lecturers on gender and feminist theory in relation to performance art, theatre, film and dance.  This course is a must for artistic collaborators from directors & choreographers, to actors, musicians, technicians, and performance artists!”
Offered: Spring
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DANC 279-01 Dancer as Collaborator Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Missy Smith
Description: Dancer as Collaborator is a one-credit movement course engaging students as dancers for choreographic work generated from the DANC 278 Choreography class and/or the Program of Dance and Movements Fall Concert. DANC 279 students act as collaborators in that they embody and perform the choreographers concepts and vision and participate in creative process. Rehearsals will average twice weekly for the bulk of the semester. Pieces created in this course will be included in the Fall concert, the End of the Term Showings, and/or other Program approved performance opportunities throughout the semester. Enrollment is by permission of instructor. Please email requests to m.p.smith@rochester.edu.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DANC 296-1 Art of Teaching Dance Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 O'Brien Residence Hall Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
9
Instructors: Anne Wilcox
Description: DANC 296 explores designing creative, comprehensive, and engaging lessons for dance studios and K-12 classrooms. Pedagogical areas of study include: Lesson and curriculum planning, teaching methods, assessment, inclusive classrooms, alignment with state and national teaching standards, and formulating a teaching philosophy. Students will have the opportunity to work directly in a studio setting and with K-12 students, developing, teaching, and evaluating lessons of their own design. Includes pedagogical theories such as Muska Mosstons Spectrum of Teaching Styles, Blooms Taxonomy, Arthur L. Costa and Ben Kallicks Habits of Mind, and Howard Gardners Multiple Intelligences. This course explores designing creative, comprehensive, and engaging lessons for dance studios and geared for both the student interested in arts in education and in teaching creative dance. Open to all levels.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DANC 305-1 Dance and Interdependent Community Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 O'Brien Residence Hall Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Missy Smith
Description:
This is a community engaged course where students will be guided in working with women in recovery, elders and others with specific needs through collaboratively designed plans and projects with community partners. Each project will be tailored to fit the unique needs of the partner communities after students have learned about the organizational missions and have worked in collaboration with partners to design mutually beneficial dance or movement experiences. The focus of each project may range from awareness raising, community building, collaboration, personal expression through dance, self-care, mindfulness, conflict resolution and more. Students are expected to visit community sites and carry out project activities that fall outside of regular class meetings. Transportation will be provided where necessary.  
Offered: Spring
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DANC 360W-1 Senior Seminar Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Sloan Performing Arts Center Room B026 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Mariah Steele
Description: Students will write, choreograph, perform, implement and/or carry out research, performances and/or projects. All students, regardless of their trajectory (choreography, performance or interdisciplinary research) will write a senior thesis, develop & realize their projects under advisement, consider & discuss various career opportunities & develop curriculum vitae. Practice in grant-writing, budgeting, marketing & general arts management skills will be addressed when appropriate. Creative process, creative & critical thinking are a focus and are carried through to a culminating event, paper, or project. Internships, other coursework as part of the major, co-curricular dance activity, service learning and/or other related activity is meant to support this capstone research both in advance of and in simultaneity with this seminar.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DANC 365A-1 Sansifanyi:West African Dance & Drum Ensemble Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1845 2015 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Kerfala Bangoura
Description: Sansifanyi is an ensemble that combines academic study and performance for intermediate and advanced students of African drumming and dance. This course requires a high degree of student commitment. Dancers who enroll in Sansifanyi will learn choreographic techniques for West African dance and gain experience dancing as soloists, and developing their own solo material. They will also focus on rhythmic timing, and on advanced skills such as how to combine movement with drumming. In addition to the time students spend in class, dancers will have weekly assignments researching, reading, writing, viewing videos, text and article analysis, practicing, and choreographing various rhythms, songs, movements, and sequences. Dancers must also be available for performances both on and off campus throughout the semester.  Prerequisite: Audition on first day of class or for dancers, one of the following: DANC 181/182, DANC 283, DANC 253, DANC 285: For drummers one of the following: MUSC 168A, MUSC 168B, MUSC 146
Offered: Fall
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DANC 365B-1 Sansifanyi:West African Dance & Drum Ensemble Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1845 2015 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Kerfala Bangoura
Description: Sansifanyi is an ensemble that combines academic study and performance for intermediate and advanced students of African drumming and dance. This course requires a high degree of student commitment. Dancers who enroll in Sansifanyi will learn choreographic techniques for West African dance and gain experience dancing as soloists, and developing their own solo material. They will also focus on rhythmic timing, and on advanced skills such as how to combine movement with drumming. In addition to the time students spend in class, dancers will have weekly assignments researching, reading, writing, viewing videos, text and article analysis, practicing, and choreographing various rhythms, songs, movements, and sequences. Dancers must also be available for performances both on and off campus throughout the semester. Students in section B are required to successfully complete section A of this course in order to register. In addition to gaining an in-depth understanding of the history and culture, students in this section will expand their repertoire and improve their skills at dancing/drumming and performing. Students in section B will also gain teaching assistant skills by helping the students in section A with select choreographies taught in the course. Prerequisite: DANC 365 A
Offered: Fall
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
DANC 365C-1 Sansifanyi:West African Dance & Drum Ensemble Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1845 2015 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
8
Instructors: Kerfala Bangoura
Description: Sansifanyi is an ensemble that combines academic study and performance for intermediate and advanced students of African drumming and dance. This course requires a high degree of student commitment. Dancers who enroll in Sansifanyi will learn choreographic techniques for West African dance and gain experience dancing as soloists, and developing their own solo material. They will also focus on rhythmic timing, and on advanced skills such as how to combine movement with drumming. In addition to the time students spend in class, dancers will have weekly assignments researching, reading, writing, viewing videos, text and article analysis, practicing, and choreographing various rhythms, songs, movements, and sequences. Dancers must also be available for performances both on and off campus throughout the semester. Students in section C are required to successfully complete section A and B of this course in order to register. Students in this section will advance in their performance and choreographic skills. Students will continue to serve as peer teachers both in and out of the classroom sessions by assisting students in learning the dancing and drumming. Students in this section will oversee the basic teachings of this course including leading preparatory warm up phrases as well as assisting students with known repertory while new materials is being developed for the class by the instructor. Students in this section are required to work on a research-based capstone dance project throughout the semester. Prerequisites: DANC 365 A and DANC 365 B. Audits are only allowed after the course has been taken for credit.
Offered: Fall
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
DANC 377-1 Chor Voice:Dance & Physics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Mariah Steele
Description: What can we learn by bringing science and art into conversation? In this course, students use improvisational and compositional forms from the field of contemporary dance to engage with cutting-edge research about extreme densities, temperatures and pressures at URs Laboratory for Laser Energetics. This new frontier of physics is shedding light on the interior of planets and stars, new material states and the development of fusion energy here on earth. Guest speakers from LLE share their research, which students then investigate in the studio, creating dances related to the scientific material presented. Core questions include: what are the benefits, challenges and limitations of artistic inquiry for modeling, understanding and communicating scientific ideas? How can scientific concepts shape dance-making? What commonalities exist between the scientific process and the creative process? The course culminates with an informal performance of students choreography based on current LLE research.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Data Science & Computation
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
DSCC 201-1 Tools for Data Science Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Bausch & Lomb Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
48 		Capacity     
100
Co-Located: DSCC 201-1 (P), DSCC 401-1
Instructors: Brendan Mort
Description: This course provides a hands-on introduction to widely-used tools for data science. Topics include computational hardware and Linux; languages and packages for statistical analysis and visualization; parallel computing and Spark; libraries for machine learning and deep learning; databases including NoSQL; and cloud services.
 

PREREQUISITES: CSC 161, CSC 171 or some equivalent programming experience strongly recommended.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
DSCC 202-1 Data Science at Scale Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
62 		Capacity     
65
Co-Located: DSCC 202-1 (P), DSCC 402-1
Instructors: Brendan Mort; Lloyd Palum
Description: Data intensive applications (DIA) are an important part of many valuable services that we rely on in our day to day lives.  These applications in most cases are built by performing data engineering and data science at scale.  Scale in this case implies data volume and compute capacity far outside of what is available on a single machine and its narrow connection to the internet.  This course will focus on how to develop data intensive applications at scale in the Cloud. The course will be structured with lecture content and programming labs using Python and SQL on Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. Grading will be based on programming homework and a final project that demonstrates clear understanding of how to orchestrate the complete DIA pipeline to deliver business value in a commercial transportation application.

PREREQUSITE: DSCC 201/401 or instructor permission
Offered: Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
DSCC 210-1 Digital Imaging Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Rettner Hall Room 307 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: DMST 210-2 (P), DSCC 210-1, DSCC 410-1, ENGL 268-1, ENGL 468-1
Instructors: Gregory Heyworth
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
DSCC 240-1 Data Mining Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Dewey Room 1101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
88 		Capacity     
95
Co-Located: CSC 240-1 (P), CSC 440-1, DSCC 240-1, DSCC 440-1, TCS 440-1
Instructors: Thaddeus Pawlicki
Description: Fundamental concepts and techniques of data mining, including data attributes, data visualization, data pre-processing, mining frequent patterns, association and correlation, classification methods, and cluster analysis. Advanced topics include outlier detection, stream mining, and social media data mining. CSC 440, a graduate-level course, requires additional readings and a course project.

Prerequisites will be strictly enforced: CSC171, CSC 172 and MATH 161.

Recommended: CSC 242 or CSC262; MATH165.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DSCC 242-1 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Wegmans Room 1400 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
130 		Capacity     
130
Co-Located: BCSC 232-1, CSC 242-1 (P), DSCC 242-1
Instructors: George Ferguson
Description: Introduces fundamental principles and techniques from Artificial Intelligence, including heuristic search, automated reasoning, handling uncertainty, and machine learning, to prepare students for advanced AI courses.

Prerequisites: CSC 172 and MTH 150; CSC 173 STRONGLY Recommended. AUDITS NOT ALLOWED.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
DSCC 261-1 Database Systems Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Dewey Room 2162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
73 		Capacity     
90
Co-Located: CSC 261-1 (P), CSC 461-1, DSCC 261-1, DSCC 461-1, TCS 461-1
Instructors: Eustrat Zhupa
Description: This course presents the fundamental concepts of database design and use. It provides a study of data models, data description languages, and query facilities including relational algebra and SQL, data normalization, transactions and their properties, physical data organization and indexing, security issues and object databases. It also looks at the new trends in databases. The knowledge of the above topics will be applied in the design and implementation of a database application using a target database management system as part of a semester-long group project.

Prerequisites: CSC 172; CSC 173 and CSC 252 recommended.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
DSCC 263-1 Data Management Systems Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Gavett Hall Room 312 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
29 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: CSC 263-1 (P), CSC 463-1, DSCC 263-1, DSCC 463-1
Instructors: Fatemeh Nargesian
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: This course explores the relational data model, the theory of database design, the use of databases in applications, and the internals of relational database engines. Topics covered will include the relational model and SQL; relational database design principles based on dependencies and normal forms; database topics from the application-building perspective, including indexes, views, transaction, and integrity constraints; query evaluation and optimization.

Restricted to CSC & DSCC majors only during initial registration period.

Prerequisites: CSC 173 and CSC 252 (or CSC 261)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
DSCC 265-2 Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Wegmans Room 1400 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
95 		Capacity     
150
Co-Located: DSCC 265-2 (P), DSCC 465-2, TCS 465-2
Instructors: Cantay Caliskan
Description: The course provides an introduction to modern machine learning concepts, techniques, and algorithms. Topics discussed include regression, clustering and classification, kernels, support vector machines, feature selection, goodness of fit, neural networks. Programming assignments emphasize taking theory into practice, through applications on real-world data sets. Students will be expected to work with Python programming environment to complete the assignments. 

PRE-REQUISITES:  DSCC/CSC/STAT 262 or STAT 212 or STAT 213 (or equivalent introductory statistics) background AND DSCC240 (or equivalent data mining course) or permission of instructor.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
DSCC 383W-1 Data Science Capstone + Practicum Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Bausch & Lomb Room 106 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
51 		Capacity     
52
Co-Located: DSCC 383W-1 (P), DSCC 483-1
Instructors: Ajay Anand; Cantay Caliskan; Lisa Altman
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The capstone/practicum provides an experience for data science majors/MS candidates to apply the core knowledge and skills attained during their program to a tangible data science focused project. Students will work in small teams on a project that applies data science methods to the analysis of a real-world problem. The instructor will guide each team in developing a topic that makes use of the knowledge the team members gained through their application area courses. The identified projects or problems and data sets will cover a range of application areas and reflect real-world needs from industry, medicine and government. Each student will be required to write a paper about their project, which satisfies one upper-level writing requirement for majors and Plan B for master's.

PREREQUISITES: DSC 240/440 (Data Mining) AND an introductory statistics course such as DSCC 262/462, STT212 or STT213 or equivalent. DSC 261/461 (Database Systems) strongly recommended prior but may be taken concurrently. ONLY GRADUATING SENIORS and MS CANDIDATES allowed this semester.

PERMISSION REQUEST: To seek instructor permission/eligibility, follow directions on UR Student. https://tech.rochester.edu/wp-content/uploads/QRC-Requesting-Permission-to-Register_UofR-_0200227_cmf.pdf
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
DSCC 401-1 Tools for Data Science Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Bausch & Lomb Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
48 		Capacity     
100
Co-Located: DSCC 201-1 (P), DSCC 401-1
Instructors: Brendan Mort
Description: This course provides a hands-on introduction to widely-used tools for data science. Topics include computational hardware and Linux; languages and packages for statistical analysis and visualization; parallel computing and Spark; libraries for machine learning and deep learning; databases including NoSQL; and cloud services.

PREREQUISITES: CSC 161, CSC 171 or some equivalent introductory programming experience strongly recommended.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
DSCC 402-1 Data Science at Scale Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
62 		Capacity     
65
Co-Located: DSCC 202-1 (P), DSCC 402-1
Instructors: Brendan Mort; Lloyd Palum
Description: Data intensive applications (DIA) are an important part of many valuable services that we rely on in our day to day lives.  These applications in most cases are built by performing data engineering and data science at scale.  Scale in this case implies data volume and compute capacity far outside of what is available on a single machine and its narrow connection to the internet.  This course will focus on how to develop data intensive applications at scale in the Cloud. The course will be structured with lecture content and programming labs using Python and SQL on Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. Grading will be based on programming homework and a final project that demonstrates clear understanding of how to orchestrate the complete DIA pipeline to deliver business value in a commercial transportation application.

PREREQUSITE: DSCC 201/401 or instructor permission
Offered: Spring
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DSCC 410-1 Digital Imaging Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Rettner Hall Room 307 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: DMST 210-2 (P), DSCC 210-1, DSCC 410-1, ENGL 268-1, ENGL 468-1
Instructors: Gregory Heyworth
Description: This course introduces students to the methods involved in turning real objects into virtual ones using cutting edge digital imaging technology and image rendering techniques. Focusing on manuscripts, paintings, maps, and 3D artifacts, students will learn the basics of multispectral imaging, photogrammetry, and Reflectance Transformation Imaging, and spectral image processing using ENVI and Photoshop. These skills will be applied to data from the ongoing research of the Lazarus Project as well as to local cultural heritage collections.
Offered: Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
DSCC 440-1 Data Mining Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Dewey Room 1101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
88 		Capacity     
95
Co-Located: CSC 240-1 (P), CSC 440-1, DSCC 240-1, DSCC 440-1, TCS 440-1
Instructors: Thaddeus Pawlicki
Description: Fundamental concepts and techniques of data mining, including data attributes, data visualization, data pre-processing, mining frequent patterns, association and correlation, classification methods, and cluster analysis. Advanced topics include outlier detection, stream mining, and social media data mining. CSC 440, a graduate-level course, requires additional readings and a course project.

Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
DSCC 461-1 Database Systems Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Dewey Room 2162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
73 		Capacity     
90
Co-Located: CSC 261-1 (P), CSC 461-1, DSCC 261-1, DSCC 461-1, TCS 461-1
Instructors: Eustrat Zhupa
Description: This course presents the fundamental concepts of database design and use. It provides a study of data models, data description languages, and query facilities including relational algebra and SQL, data normalization, transactions and their properties, physical data organization and indexing, security issues and object databases. It also looks at the new trends in databases. The knowledge of the above topics will be applied in the design and implementation of a database application using a target database management system as part of a semester-long group project.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
DSCC 463-1 Data Management Systems Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Gavett Hall Room 312 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
29 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: CSC 263-1 (P), CSC 463-1, DSCC 263-1, DSCC 463-1
Instructors: Fatemeh Nargesian
Description: This course explores the internals of data engines. Topics covered will include the relational model; relational database design principles based on dependencies and normal forms; query execution; transactions; recovery; query optimization; parallel query processing; NoSQL. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DSCC 465-2 Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Wegmans Room 1400 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
95 		Capacity     
150
Co-Located: DSCC 265-2 (P), DSCC 465-2, TCS 465-2
Instructors: Cantay Caliskan
Description: The course provides an introduction to modern machine learning concepts, techniques, and algorithms. Topics discussed include regression, clustering and classification, kernels, support vector machines, feature selection, goodness of fit, neural networks. Programming assignments emphasize taking theory into practice, through applications on real-world data sets. Students will be expected to work with Python programming environment to complete the assignments. 

PRE-REQUISITES: 

1) DSCC/CSC/TCS 462 or STAT 212 or STAT 213 or equivalent introductory statistics background.

2) Introductory programming in Python or equivalent background in another programming language.

3) Knowledge of data mining/machine learning.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
DSCC 483-1 Data Science Capstone + Practicum Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Bausch & Lomb Room 106 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
51 		Capacity     
52
Co-Located: DSCC 383W-1 (P), DSCC 483-1
Instructors: Ajay Anand; Cantay Caliskan
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The capstone/practicum provides an experience for data science majors/MS candidates to apply the core knowledge and skills attained during their program to a tangible data science focused project. Students will work in small teams on a project that applies data science methods to the analysis of a real-world problem. The instructor will guide each team in developing a topic that makes use of the knowledge the team members gained through their application area courses. The identified projects or problems and data sets will cover a range of application areas and reflect real-world needs from industry, medicine and government. Each student will be required to write a paper about their project, which satisfies one upper-level writing requirement for majors and Plan B for master's.

PREREQUISITES: DSCC 240/440 (Data Mining) AND an introductory statistics course such as DSCC 462 or equivalent; DSCC 261/461 (Database Systems) strongly recommended prior but may be taken concurrently. FOR GRADUATING MS Candidate ONLY.

PERMISSION REQUEST: To seek instructor permission/eligibility, follow directions on UR Student. https://tech.rochester.edu/wp-content/uploads/QRC-Requesting-Permission-to-Register_UofR-_0200227_cmf.pdf
Offered: Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Digital Media Studies
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
DMST 101-1 Intro Digital Media Studies Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Rettner Hall Room 307 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Kristana Textor
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: In this class we will critically think about the creation, production, distribution, consumption and reception of digital media. Readings and class discussions will focus on the theory, history, and practice of digital media and its application in the Humanities, Social Sciences and our world. Students will produce individual research in the form of written responses, as well as collaborative digital projects. The course's goals are to prepare students to thoughtfully critique our digital world, create scholarly digital projects, and understand the multifaceted importance of media in today's society. This course is only open to first-year and sophomore students.

The DMST 101 waitlist is now closed.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DMST 102-1 Programming Digital Media Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Harkness Room 114 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Joseph Loporcaro
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course introduces core concepts and techniques of computer programming and mobile app development to prepare students for more advanced topics in the creation, manipulation, storage, and transmission of digital media. Students will use Google Dart and Google Flutter to develop an understanding of computer capabilities and the skills required of computer programmers. No previous programming experience is required.

The DMST 102 waitlist is now closed.
Offered: Fall Spring
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DMST 103-1 Essential Digital Media Toolkit Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Rettner Hall Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
29 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Kirby Pilcher
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course introduces students to current software for creating, editing, and producing core Digital Media objects: photographs, video, vector images, 3D models, & videogames. This fast-paced project-driven course invites experts in the fields of photography, video, graphic design, rapid prototyping, and gaming to share their knowledge and experience. Through finding creative solutions to problems posed by instructors, you will manipulate photographs, edit a short video, design graphics, make and modify a 3D model, and create a small interactive videogame environment. The course culminates with designing a digital portfolio of the work you create.

The DMST 103 waitlist is now closed.
Offered: Fall Spring
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DMST 104-1 Design in the Digital Age Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Rettner Hall Room 307 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
29 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Kristana Textor
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Designing digital products and services requires a process of “Interaction Design” which is a wholly new discipline that moves beyond previous fads of simply making digital things that look like physical world objects. Since there is no known formula for creating great UI/UX we will explore the need to consider interactivity as a design process, moving from initial ethnographic research through ideation and design, and the many steps that lead to final delivery and presentation. Mastery of this process will prepare DMS students to undertake their senior capstone project as well as effectively develop other creative and entrepreneurial ideas/ventures.

The DMST 104 waitlist is now closed.
Offered: Fall Spring
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DMST 110-1 Video Game History Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1815 1930 Rettner Hall Room 307 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Joseph Loporcaro
Restrictions: Not open to seniors- AS&E
Description: This course examines videogames as the newest digital medium and considers their evolution, proliferation, and the diverse ecology of games and game genres today. We will also consider videogame culture and the place of videogames in our daily lives now and in the future.
Offered: Fall Spring
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DMST 111-1 New Media and Emerging Practices 1 Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1930 Sage Arts Center Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: DMST 111-1, FMST 205-1, SART 151-1 (P)
Instructors: Andrew Salomone
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course merges contemporary art production with technologies and social interventions. Students will combine historical, inter-media approaches with new, evolving trends in social practice. This course offering uses cyberpunk, a subgenre of science fiction, as a framework for examining contemporary art and media production in both theory and practice. Students will deploy introductory level techniques to create new works at the intersection of art, design, and technology. Not open to seniors. $75 Studio Fee. If the course fills and you would like to be added to the waitlist, fill out the form found at this link: https://www.sageart.center/resources.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DMST 112-2 Introduction to Photography Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1305 Sage Arts Center Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: DMST 112-2, SART 141-2 (P)
Instructors: Kirby Pilcher
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This class is an introduction to the basic elements of photography, SLR and DSLR camera, darkroom techniques and alternative digital processes with an emphasis on photography as an interpretive and hybrid medium. The student will be asked to develop series of images using various photographic techniques and formats such as photograms (photography without a camera), collages and digital negatives printed on silver photographic paper. The class will explore alternative modes of thinking about the photographic frame and ways of presenting images. In conjunction to their studio projects, students will be exposed to current issues in photography and related media through readings, screenings and group discussions. No prior experience in photography is needed to successfully complete this class. Not open to seniors. $75 Studio Fee. If the course fills and you would like to be added to the waitlist, fill out the form found at this link: https://www.sageart.center/resources.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DMST 112-3 Introduction to Photography Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1640 Sage Arts Center Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: DMST 112-3, SART 141-3 (P)
Instructors: Megan Mette
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This class is an introduction to the basic elements of photography, SLR and DSLR camera, darkroom techniques and alternative digital processes with an emphasis on photography as an interpretive and hybrid medium. The student will be asked to develop series of images using various photographic techniques and formats such as photograms (photography without a camera), collages and digital negatives printed on silver photographic paper. The class will explore alternative modes of thinking about the photographic frame and ways of presenting images. In conjunction to their studio projects, students will be exposed to current issues in photography and related media through readings, screenings and group discussions. No prior experience in photography is needed to successfully complete this class. Not open to seniors. $50 Studio Fee. If the course fills and you would like to be added to the waitlist, fill out the form found at this link: https://www.sageart.center/resources
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DMST 121-1 Art and Tech of Recording Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Gavett Hall Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: AME 191-1 (P), DMST 121-1, MUSC 191-1
Instructors: Stephen Roessner
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course covers the fundamentals in becoming an audio engineer. Topics covered include: Acoustics, Psychoacoustics, Microphones, Signal Processing, Tape Recording, Digital Audio Theory, Signal Flow, Studio Etiquette, Digital Audio Workstations, Music Business, Recording Audio, and Mixing Audio. You do not need any previous experience in recording, however some familiarity with music and how it is created is needed.

There are four group recording projects that make up the bulk of the course, each with their own guidelines and challenges. This course requires considerable time to be spent on projects outside of the lecture and lab times. The labs are required to take this course.

First-year non-AME Major students are ineligible to take this course.

Prerequisites: None

INSTRUCTOR PERMISSION ONLY.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DMST 122-1 Listening and Audio Prod Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Gavett Hall Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: AME 192-1 (P), DMST 122-1, MUSC 192-1
Instructors: Stephen Roessner
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course builds on knowledge gained in AME191. Fundamental topics covered include Advanced Mixing and Mastering Techniques, Drum Replacement, Impulse Responses and Reverb, Advanced Concepts of Signal Processing, Analog Tape Recording, Music Business Ethics and Taxes, and Hybrid Analog/Digital Mixing Techniques.

Emphasis is on the development of critical listening skills through ear training exercises and active listening assignments. These drills will develop your ability to hear width and depth in audio, mixing techniques in various musical genres, specific instruments used in a recording, and recognition of various effects including reverb, delay, compression, phasing and distortion.

There are four group recording projects that make up the bulk of the course, each with their own guidelines and challenges. This course requires considerable time to be spent on projects outside of the lecture and lab times. The labs are required to take this course.

Prerequisites: AME 191

INSTRUCTOR PERMISSION ONLY.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DMST 123-1 Sound Design Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Computer Studies Room 616 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
40
Instructors: Robert LaVaque
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The course is intended to provide students a basic understanding of SOUND DESIGN and working with sound for picture. The emphasis is on demonstrations and hands-on experience to enable students to gain a practical knowledge of sound and music production using computers.

Topics include synthesizers & samplers; recording and editing with Pro Tools and Logic Pro; sound effect creation; foley & automatic dialog replacement; basic soundtrack composition; and working to picture. Many techniques are explored, employing software and hardware-based sound creation tools throughout the course. Students will complete a major sound design project at the conclusion of the course.

Instructor’s permission required: Please provide your class year and major/minor.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DMST 200W-2 Digital Portfolio Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Rettner Hall Room 307 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: James Parrillo
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Digital media students often publicly showcase their work while pursuing internships, careers, and postgraduate education. To prepare for this, students in this course will design interactive portfolios to showcase their work. Digital portfolios present unique challenges because, like much public work, they frequently engage multiple audiences that might have conflicting expectations. In this course, students will explore their professional interests, identities, and goals in order to identify relevant audiences. Based on their audience and purpose, students will focus on making effective choices about platform, style, content, and design in order to create their own portfolios. Using self-reflection as well as peer and instructor feedback, students will revise and refine their work across the semester. Students will also be encouraged to seek external feedback from professionals in the field. This course is only open to DMS declared students. Pre-Requisite: DMST 103- Digital Media Toolkit. Open to DMS Majors Only.

If the course is full and you would like to be added to the waitlist, please use this link to be added to the waitlist: https://forms.gle/JG3zYL13BsnVPfwN6 (Waitlist opens November 14). 
Offered: Fall Spring
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DMST 210-2 Digital Imaging Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Rettner Hall Room 307 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: DMST 210-2 (P), DSCC 210-1, DSCC 410-1, ENGL 268-1, ENGL 468-1
Instructors: Gregory Heyworth
Description: This course introduces students to the methods involved in turning real objects into virtual ones using cutting edge digital imaging technology and image rendering techniques. Focusing on manuscripts, paintings, maps, and 3D artifacts, students will learn the basics of multispectral imaging, photogrammetry, and Reflectance Transformation Imaging, and spectral image processing using ENVI and Photoshop. These skills will be applied to data from the ongoing research of the Lazarus Project as well as to local cultural heritage collections.
Offered: Spring
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DMST 213-1 Comedy in Film and Television Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Gavett Hall Room 312 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: DMST 213-1, DMST 213W-1, ENGL 380-3 (P), FMST 233-1
Instructors: Joel Burges
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: From rom coms, musical comedies, and sitcoms to tragicomedy, satire, and slapstick, many versions of comedy have made us laugh out loud or smile sardonically from the ancients to the moderns. While this history will have a place in our course, we will primarily investigate comedy in film and television of the 20th and 21st centuries. We will explore critical issues related to comedy, including the function and meaning of laughter and jokes; moments of comic relief; the relationship of comedy to community and crisis; love, sexuality, and romance; the role of the body and whether comedy is a "body genre"; how race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class get messily mediated by comedy; the difference of comedy from other modes such as tragedy, horror, and realism; and the varying tones comedy can have from dark to light, serious to fun, and comforting to disturbing. Preference will be given to English, Digital Media Studies, and Film & Media Studies majors fulfilling a requirement.
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DMST 213W-1 Comedy in Film and Television Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Gavett Hall Room 312 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: DMST 213-1, DMST 213W-1, ENGL 380-3 (P), FMST 233-1
Instructors: Joel Burges
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: From rom coms, musical comedies, and sitcoms to tragicomedy, satire, and slapstick, many versions of comedy have made us laugh out loud or smile sardonically from the ancients to the moderns. While this history will have a place in our course, we will primarily investigate comedy in film and television of the 20th and 21st centuries. We will explore critical issues related to comedy, including the function and meaning of laughter and jokes; moments of comic relief; the relationship of comedy to community and crisis; love, sexuality, and romance; the role of the body and whether comedy is a "body genre"; how race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class get messily mediated by comedy; the difference of comedy from other modes such as tragedy, horror, and realism; and the varying tones comedy can have from dark to light, serious to fun, and comforting to disturbing. Preference will be given to English, Digital Media Studies, and Film & Media Studies majors fulfilling a requirement.
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DMST 221-1 Advanced Video: Mind Society Environment Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1640 Sage Arts Center Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: DMST 221-1, EHUM 255-1, FMST 257-1, SART 262A-1 (P), SART 262B-1, SART 262C-1
Instructors: Cary Adams
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: "It’s not climate change—it’s everything change," novelist Margaret Atwood has said. This course uses video and moving image to examine the deep intertwined and intersectional roots of the ecological crisis, from viral pandemics and racial justice to the disruption of our climate and all the other apocalyptic scenarios we currently find ourselves in. To guide our development of eco-cinematic consciousness, we will study the works of Kenyan activist Mangari Maathai, Native American (Chickasaw) writer Linda Hogan, and French philosopher Félix Guattari's foundational text, The Three Ecologies, to understand how ecologies of mind, media, and environment are interrelated and to complicate our understandings of "nature." Student Projects will involve installation, single-channel, sound, and networked-based approaches. Works will be examined within a critical environmental arts framework through readings, critiques, viewings and discussions. Permission of instructor. $75 studio fee. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DMST 230-1 Climate Interventions: Performing Arts + New Media Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Rettner Hall Room 307 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
TR 1230 1345 Todd Union Room 107 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: DANC 233-1 (P), DMST 230-1, EHUM 233-1, SUST 220-1
Instructors: Stephanie Ashenfelder; Rose Beauchamp
Description: This humanities course based in the arts combines the study of performing, visual arts and new media with history and theory to convey a breadth of stories about the human experience of climate change. In this interdisciplinary, collaborative course, students will be introduced to the multi-faceted use of the arts in designing for and expressing a vision for a sustainable future. Working with community partners, our research and story collection in the Adirondack park will be used to inspire projects in the course.  Collaboration, design thinking, and the iterative design process will be used to produce performances and art work that respond to the stories of the changing climate in the Adirondack park. It will move through multiple units of theoretical study as students simultaneously work on their creative projects. The course will include an optional trip to the Adirondack Park to engage with our community partners.
Offered: Spring
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DMST 250-1 Writing in a Digital World Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lechase Room 148 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: DMST 250-1, ENGL 288-1, WRTG 261-1 (P)
Instructors: Lisabeth Tinelli
Description: The purpose of writing in a digital world is to engage with a broader community around a topic of interest and contribute to public knowledge. In this course, students are invited to dig deeply into a question of interest, write for a public audience, and use the Internet as an archive of information waiting to be discovered, analyzed, and written about. Students can draw on pre-existing research interests from their majors or develop a line of inquiry stemming from class discussions, writing, and research. In order to gain experience writing to a range of readers, students will engage in a writing process informed by peer review, self-assessment, and revision. Shorter writing assignments will help students develop and refine ideas as they transform texts for different audiences. The final research project will be multimodal, published for a public audience, and should demonstrate your ability to think critically about a topic and effectively communicate that knowledge to a range of readers.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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DMST 271-1 History of Graphic Design Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Morey Room 502 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AHST 282-1, DMST 271-1 (P)
Instructors: Nancy Bernardo
Description: This course provides students with knowledge and understanding of the places, people, events; historical and cultural factors; and technological innovations that have influenced the development of graphic design into the practice that it is today. This course examines both the dominant cultural ideas embodied by Graphic Design, as well as the counter-narratives it generates to express diverse cultural identities. Students in this course will question the meaning and form of graphic artifacts.
Offered: Spring
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DMST 373-1 Capstone: Development Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Rettner Hall Room 307 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
32 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Stephanie Ashenfelder; Nancy Bernardo
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: The final capstone course in which students plan, design, construct and deliver a digital media object of significant scope. Working as a team, they deploy their collective knowledge, skills, and expertise to undertake an external client's proposal and/or devise a project of their own design. Prerequisite: DMST 372.
Offered: Spring
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DMST 390-2 Supervised Teaching- DMST 104 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
1
Instructors: Joseph Loporcaro
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring
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DMST 390-3 Supervised Teaching- DMST 101 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
3
Instructors: Kristana Textor
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring
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DMST 390-4 Supervised Teaching- DMST 110 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
3
Instructors: Joseph Loporcaro
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring
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DMST 390-6 Supervised Teaching - DMST 102 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
3
Instructors: Joseph Loporcaro
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring
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DMST 501-1 Dig Humanities-Mellon Grant Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 900 1100 Lechase Room 161 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
8
Instructors: Peter Christensen
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Engineering and Applied Sciences
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
EAS 141-1 Basic Mechanical Fabrication Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1400 1640 Rettner Hall Room 106 01/11/2023 03/01/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
6
Instructors: Jim Zavislan
Restrictions: Not open to seniors- AS&E
Description: This course will teach students the safe and effective use of basic machine tools such as lathes, mills, band-saws and drill presses. Students will complete a number of projects that utilize these principles. Grades will be based on the successful completion of these projects. A course paper will be a written documentation of the procedures necessary to complete one of the projects done during the class. The paper will be graded on content, organization and clarity.

Not open to seniors

This course section runs the first half of the semester (January 11-March 1, 2023).
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
EAS 141-2 Basic Mechanical Fabrication Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Rettner Hall Room 106 01/11/2023 03/01/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
6
Instructors: Jim Zavislan
Restrictions: Not open to seniors- AS&E
Description: This course will teach students the safe and effective use of basic machine tools such as lathes, mills, band-saws and drill presses. Students will complete a number of projects that utilize these principles. Grades will be based on the successful completion of these projects. A course paper will be a written documentation of the procedures necessary to complete one of the projects done during the class. The paper will be graded on content, organization and clarity.

Not open to seniors.

This course section runs the first half of the semester (January 11-March 1, 2023).
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
EAS 141-3 Basic Mechanical Fabrication Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Rettner Hall Room 106 01/11/2023 03/01/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
6
Instructors: Jim Zavislan
Restrictions: Not open to seniors- AS&E
Description: This course will teach students the safe and effective use of basic machine tools such as lathes, mills, band-saws and drill presses. Students will complete a number of projects that utilize these principles. Grades will be based on the successful completion of these projects. A course paper will be a written documentation of the procedures necessary to complete one of the projects done during the class. The paper will be graded on content, organization and clarity.

Not open to seniors
This course section runs the first half of the semester (January 11-March 1, 2023)
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
EAS 141-4 Basic Mechanical Fabrication Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 900 1140 Rettner Hall Room 106 01/11/2023 03/01/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
6
Instructors: Jim Zavislan
Restrictions: Not open to seniors- AS&E
Description: This course will teach students the safe and effective use of basic machine tools such as lathes, mills, band-saws and drill presses. Students will complete a number of projects that utilize these principles. Grades will be based on the successful completion of these projects. A course paper will be a written documentation of the procedures necessary to complete one of the projects done during the class. The paper will be graded on content, organization and clarity.

Not open to seniors.

This course section runs the first half of the semester (January 11-March 1, 2023).
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
EAS 141-5 Basic Mechanical Fabrication Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1400 1640 Rettner Hall Room 106 03/02/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
6
Instructors: Jim Zavislan
Restrictions: Not open to seniors- AS&E
Description: This course will teach students the safe and effective use of basic machine tools such as lathes, mills, band-saws and drill presses. Students will complete a number of projects that utilize these principles. Grades will be based on the successful completion of these projects. A course paper will be a written documentation of the procedures necessary to complete one of the projects done during the class. The paper will be graded on content, organization and clarity.

Open to first-years and sophomores.

This course section runs the second half of the semester (March 2-April 26, 2023).
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
EAS 141-6 Basic Mechanical Fabrication Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Rettner Hall Room 106 03/02/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
6
Instructors: Jim Zavislan
Restrictions: Not open to seniors- AS&E
Description: This course will teach students the safe and effective use of basic machine tools such as lathes, mills, band-saws and drill presses. Students will complete a number of projects that utilize these principles. Grades will be based on the successful completion of these projects. A course paper will be a written documentation of the procedures necessary to complete one of the projects done during the class. The paper will be graded on content, organization and clarity.

Not open to seniors.

This course section runs the second half of the semester (March 2-April 26, 2023).
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
EAS 141-7 Basic Mechanical Fabrication Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Rettner Hall Room 106 03/02/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
6
Instructors: Jim Zavislan
Restrictions: Not open to seniors- AS&E
Description: This course will teach students the safe and effective use of basic machine tools such as lathes, mills, band-saws and drill presses. Students will complete a number of projects that utilize these principles. Grades will be based on the successful completion of these projects. A course paper will be a written documentation of the procedures necessary to complete one of the projects done during the class. The paper will be graded on content, organization and clarity.

Not open to seniors.

This course section runs the second half of the semester (March 2-April 26, 2023).
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
EAS 141-8 Basic Mechanical Fabrication Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 900 1140 Rettner Hall Room 106 03/02/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
6
Instructors: Jim Zavislan
Restrictions: Not open to seniors- AS&E
Description: This course will teach students the safe and effective use of basic machine tools such as lathes, mills, band-saws and drill presses. Students will complete a number of projects that utilize these principles. Grades will be based on the successful completion of these projects. A course paper will be a written documentation of the procedures necessary to complete one of the projects done during the class. The paper will be graded on content, organization and clarity.

Open to first-years and sophomores.

This course section runs the second half of the semester (March 2-April 26, 2023).
Offered: Fall Spring
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EAS 145-1 Ethics of Technology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Morey Room 502 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
32 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: EAS 145-1, PHIL 120-1 (P)
Instructors: Randall Curren
Description:

Codes of ethics developed by the engineering profession refer to integrity, competence, leadership, commitment to enhancing the quality of life in the society and across the world, and protecting the natural and built environment. In this course we will explore these dimensions of professionalism and acquire a toolkit for principled decision-making, communication, and professional flourishing. We will focus on the value judgments that are integral to the engineering design process, while also examining the ways in which institutional settings influence decision-making. The pedagogy, written work, and evaluation in this course will be strongly oriented to case-based analysis.
Offered: Spring
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EAS 392-1 Industry Practicum Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
No Cap
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ECE 112-1 Logic Design Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Meliora Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
48 		Capacity     
60
Instructors: Selcuk Kose
Description: Students are exposed to Combinational logic elements including all of the following: logic gates, Boolean algebra, Karnaugh Maps, conversion between number systems, binary, tertiary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal number systems, and arithmetic on signed and unsigned binary numbers using 1's and 2's complement arithmetic. Also covered are programmable logic devices, synchronous finite state machines, State Diagrams, FPGAs and coding logic in VHDL.

Prerequisites: MTH 162, OR MTH 141, OR MTH 171
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECE 113-1 Circuits & Signals Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1025 1115 Gavett Hall Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
53 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Jack Mottley
Description: The principal focus of ECE113 is frequency domain representation of time signals, starting with phasors and ending with elements of Fourier series and Fourier transforms. Mathematics is introduced as needed for the specific material being covered, including: complex numbers, initial value problems, Laplace transform pairs, matrices, Fourier series, and Fourier transforms, including convolution. In addition, some effort is devoted to non-linear circuit analysis using loadlines.

 Concurrent registration in MTH 165 and PHY 122 
Offered: Spring
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ECE 114-1 Intro to C/C++ Programming Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Computer Studies Room 601 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
40
Instructors: William Moon
Description: This course provides an introduction to the C and C++ programming languages and the key techniques of software programming in general. Students will learn C/C++ syntax and semantics, program design, debugging, and software engineering fundamentals, including object-oriented programming. In addition, students will develop skills in problem solving with algorithms. Programming assignments will be used as the primary means of strengthening and evaluating these skills. Each student also has to complete a game project in C++ at the end of the semester. INSTRUCTOR: WILIAM MOON
Offered: Fall Spring
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ECE 200-1 Computer Organization Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
36 		Capacity     
50
Co-Located: ECE 200-1 (P), ECE 400-1
Instructors: Tong Geng
Description: Instruction set principles; processor design, pipelining, data and control hazards; datapath and computer arithmetic; memory systems; I/O and peripheral devices; internetworking. Students learn the challenges, opportunities, and tradeoffs involved in modern microprocessor design. Assignments and labs involve processor and memory subsystem design using hardware description languages (HDL). Prerequisites:

ECE114, ECE 112 or CSC 171, or permission of Instructor
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECE 204-1 Multiprocessor Arch Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
WF 1525 1640 Hylan Building Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
27 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: CSC 404-1, ECE 204-1 (P), ECE 404-1, TEE 404-1
Instructors: Michael Huang
Description: This course provides in-depth discussions of the design and implementation issues of multiprocessor system architecture. Topics include cache coherence, memory consistency, interconnect, their interplay and impact on the design of high-performance micro-architectures.
Offered: Spring
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ECE 208-1 The Art Of Machine Learning Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
WF 1025 1140 Morey Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
28 		Capacity     
28
Co-Located: ECE 208-1 (P), ECE 408-1, TEE 408-1
Instructors: Zhiyao Duan
Description: Machine Learning (ML) is the branch of Artificial Intelligence dedicated to teaching computers how to solve tasks by learning from data. This class introduces basic concepts of machine learning through various real-world ECE applications. It will cover various learning paradigms such as supervised learning, semi-supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and reinforcement learning. It will also cover classical and state-of-the-art techniques such as linear models, support vector machines, Gaussian mixture models, hidden Markov models, matrix factorization, ensemble learning, principal component analysis, and various kinds of deep neural networks. Students will learn the pros and cons of different methods and their suited application scenarios. This course is hands-on with multiple programming assignments and a final project to solve real ECE problems. Prerequisites: General programming such as ECE-114; MATH 165 linear algebra. Probability and statistics such as ECE 270 is recommended. 
Offered: Fall
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ECE 210-1 Circuit Analysis for System Thinking Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
WF 1025 1140 Harkness Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
40 		Capacity     
40
Instructors: Edward Herger
Description: 4 credit hour course, with laboratory, intended for physical scientists and (non-electrical) engineers. Electrical concepts will be developed based on modern needs and techniques: Current, Voltage, Components, Sources, Operational Amplifiers, Analysis Techniques, First and Second Order Circuits, Sinusoids and AC. Technical elective for non-ECE majors.

prerequisites: Concurrent registration in MTH 165 and PHY 122
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECE 217-1 Robot Motion Planning and Manipulation Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Computer Studies Room 601 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
36
Co-Located: ECE 217-1 (P), ECE 417-1
Instructors: Thomas Howard
Description:
This course covers control and planning algorithms with applications in robotics. Topics include forward and inverse kinematics, dynamics, joint space control, operational space control, robot trajectory planning, search spaces, search algorithms, grasping, manipulation, and applications of such topics on mobile robots and robotic manipulators. It is expected by the end of the course that students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of how robots plan paths and trajectories in the context of their perceived environment in simulation and on physical robots through laboratory exercises. Performance is evaluated through homework assignments, coding assessments, exams, and a course project. PREREQUISITE: ECE 216
Offered: Spring
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ECE 222-1 Integcircuits:Degsn&Analysis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Gavett Hall Room 310 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
31 		Capacity     
48
Instructors: Hui Wu
Description: An introduction to the analysis and design of integrated circuits. IC process technologies (CMOS, bipolar, BiCMOS). SPICE simulation. High-frequency device models (diode, BJT, MOSFET). Frequency response of amplifiers. Cascode amplifiers. Source degeneration. Differential amplifier. Feedback. Frequency compensation. Operational amplifiers. Inverters. Logic gates. Pass-transistor logic. HSPICE simulation labs. Hands-on final design project. Prerequisite: ECE 221 or equivalent, or permission of instructor
Offered: Spring
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ECE 233-1 Musical Acoustics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Computer Studies Room 601 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: AME 233-1 (P), ECE 233-1, ECE 433-1, PHYS 233-1, TEE 433-1
Instructors: Michael Heilemann
Description: Aspects of acoustics. Review of oscillators, vibratory motion, the acoustic wave equation, reflection, transmission and absorption of sound, radiation and diffraction of acoustic waves. Resonators, hearing and speech, architectural and environmental acoustics. prerequisites:

Linear algebra and Differential Equations (MTH 165), Multivariable Calculus (MTH 164), and Physics (PHY 121) or equivalents. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECE 248-1 Seismic Signals & Noise Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Morey Room 525 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Co-Located: ECE 248-1, EESC 225-1 (P), EESC 425-1
Instructors: Tolulope Olugboji
Description:
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Prereqs: General Calculus (MTH140 or MTH 160 sequences). The first course in physics: i.e. general physics I or mechanics (i.e., PHY121 taken concurrently), can provide a helpful background

Research frontiers in earth imaging, quake detection, volcano and nuclear explosion monitoring, require extraction of seismic and acoustic signals buried in noise. Seismo-acoustic signals are mechanical vibrations generated in the solid earth and its coupling with the fluid atmosphere and oceans. In this course we will introduce linear system theory, digital signal processing and how they enable routine processing of recorded Seismo-acoustic waves contaminated by the nuisance of ‘noise’. Topics include Fourier analysis, spectrograms, z-transforms, poles-zeros, instrument design, (de-)convolution, autocorrelation, cross-spectra, and filter theory: homomorphic filters, cepstral analysis. Exemplary data will cover geotechnical engineering, forensic, exploration, glacial, submarine and planetary seismology.
Offered: Spring
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ECE 272-1 Audio Sig Proc for Analysis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Computer Studies Room 601 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
28 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: AME 272-1 (P), ECE 272-1, ECE 472-1, TEE 472-1
Instructors: Sarah Smith
Description: This course is a survey of audio digital signal processing fundamentals and applications. Topics include sampling and quantization, analog to digital converters, time and frequency domains, spectral analysis, vocoding, digital filters, audio effects, music audio analysis and synthesis, and other advanced topics in audio signal processing. Implementation of algorithms using Matlab and on dedicated DSP platforms is emphasized.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECE 280-1 Uncertainties Sci Puzzles Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1525 1640 Computer Studies Room 523 01/09/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
28
Instructors: Kevin Parker
Description: This seminar course aims to examine several major questions posed in physics, mathematics, logic, and cognitive sciences. The goal is to understand the boundaries where important research questions or limiting factors remain.Topics include: dark matter and energy; The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics? (Wigner),Godels Incompleteness Theorem, and the mechanisms of reasoning. Weekly readings and short position papers are required through the semester.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECE 349-1 ECE Design Capstone Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1650 1930 Hutchison Hall Room 473 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Jack Mottley
Description: Senior design course. Prior faculty approval required or design project proposal.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECE 400-1 Computer Organization Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
36 		Capacity     
50
Co-Located: ECE 200-1 (P), ECE 400-1
Instructors: Tong Geng
Description: SEE ECE 200
Offered: Spring
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ECE 404-1 Multiprocessor Arch Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
WF 1525 1640 Hylan Building Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
27 		Capacity     
28
Co-Located: CSC 404-1, ECE 204-1 (P), ECE 404-1, TEE 404-1
Instructors: Michael Huang
Description: This course provides in-depth discussions of the design and implementation issues of multiprocessor system architecture. Topics include cache coherence, memory consistency, interconnect, their interplay and impact on the design of high-performance micro-architectures.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECE 408-1 The Art of Machine Learning Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
WF 1025 1140 Morey Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
28 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: ECE 208-1 (P), ECE 408-1, TEE 408-1
Instructors: Zhiyao Duan
Description: Machine Learning (ML) is the branch of Artificial Intelligence dedicated to teaching computers how to solve tasks by learning from data. This class introduces basic concepts of machine learning through various real-world ECE applications. It will cover various learning paradigms such as supervised learning, semi-supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and reinforcement learning. It will also cover classical and state-of-the-art techniques such as linear models, support vector machines, Gaussian mixture models, hidden Markov models, matrix factorization, ensemble learning, principal component analysis, and various kinds of deep neural networks. Students will learn the pros and cons of different methods and their suited application scenarios. This course is hands-on with multiple programming assignments and a final project to solve real ECE problems. Prerequisites: General programming such as ECE-114; MATH 165 linear algebra. Probability and statistics such as ECE 270 is recommended. 
Offered: Fall
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ECE 409-1 Machine Learning Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
57 		Capacity     
68
Co-Located: CSC 246-1 (P), CSC 446-1, ECE 409-1, TCS 446-1
Instructors: Adam Purtee
Description: Mathematical foundations of classification, regression, and decision making. Supervised algorithms covered include perceptrons, logistic regression, support vector machines, and neural networks.  Directed and undirected graphical models.  Numerical parameter optimization, including gradient descent, expectation maximization, and other methods.  Introduction to reinforcement learning. Proofs covered as appropriate.  Significant programming projects will be assigned.  Prerequisites:  This course involves a lot of math and algorithms.  You should know multivariable calculus,  linear algebra, and some algorithms.   No formal prerequisites but MATH 165, MATH 164, and CSC 242 strongly recommended.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECE 411-1 Selected Topics in Augmented and Virtual Reality Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Todd Union Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
0
Co-Located: BCSC 571-1, BME 413-1, CSC 414-1, CVSC 535-1, ECE 411-1 (P), NSCI 416-1, OPT 438-1
Instructors: Mujdat Cetin; Chenliang Xu; Ross Maddox
Restrictions: Instructor permission required for Undergraduates - AS&E
Description: This is the second course offered as part of the PhD training program on augmented and virtual reality. It builds on the first course, Introduction to Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR). The goal of the course is to provide exposure to problems in the AR/VR domain addressed by various disciplines. The course consists of three one-month long modules in a semester. Modules engage students in particular aspects of AR/VR or hands-on experience on AR/VR. Modules to be offered in various years include: fundamentals of optics for AR/VR; AR/VR in the silicon; foundations of visual perception in the context of AR/VR; computer audition and acoustic rendering; measuring the human brain; deep learning and visual recognition for AR/VR; brain-computer interfacing in a virtual environment; 3D interfaces and interaction; AR/VR for collaborative education & professional training. In Spring 2023, the following three modules will be offered: 1) Deep learning and visual recognition for AR/VR. (Prof. Chenliang Xu) Recent developments in deep learning have significantly advanced state-of-the-art visual recognition in problems such as object detection, activity recognition, and semantic segmentation. In this module, students will learn core concepts in deep learning, including convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks. They will receive hands-on experience using popular deep-learning libraries like PyTorch to build visual recognition algorithms for AR/VR systems. 2) Measuring the human brain. (Prof. Ross Maddox) This module will introduce students to studies of human brain function using non-invasive methods. It will focus on experimental paradigms and data analysis in the time and frequency domains. Neural encoding and decoding models and applications to brain-computer interfaces will also be discussed. The module will have a mixed format, with lectures and labs. Lab exercises will be based on analyzing real data from human subjects. 3) Professional encounters with leading AR/VR researchers. This module will involve a series of seminars and discussion sessions with leading AR/VR researchers from academia and industry. Prerequisites: ECE 410 or OPT 410 or BME 410 or NSCI 415 or CSC 413 or CVSC 534

INSTRUCTORS:  Chenliang Xu; Ross Maddox; Mujdat Cetin
Offered: Spring
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ECE 417-1 Robot Motion Planning and Manipulation Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Computer Studies Room 601 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
36
Co-Located: ECE 217-1 (P), ECE 417-1
Instructors: Thomas Howard
Description: This course covers control and planning algorithms with applications in robotics. Topics include forward and inverse kinematics, dynamics, joint space control, operational space control, robot trajectory planning, search spaces, search algorithms, grasping, manipulation, and applications of such topics on mobile robots and robotic manipulators. It is expected by the end of the course that students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of how robots plan paths and trajectories in the context of their perceived environment in simulation and on physical robots through laboratory exercises. Performance is evaluated through homework assignments, coding assessments, exams, and a course project. PEREQUISITE: ECE 216
Offered: Spring
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ECE 421-1 Opt Properties of Materials Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: ECE 421-1, MSC 470-1, OPT 421-1 (P), TEO 421-1
Instructors: Gary Wicks
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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECE 433-1 Musical Acoustics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Computer Studies Room 601 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: AME 233-1 (P), ECE 233-1, ECE 433-1, PHYS 233-1, TEE 433-1
Instructors: Michael Heilemann
Description: Aspects of acoustics. Review of oscillators, vibratory motion, the acoustic wave equation, reflection, transmission and absorption of sound, radiation and diffraction of acoustic waves. Resonators, hearing and speech, architectural and environmental acoustics.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECE 436-1 Nanophotonic & Nanomechanical Devices Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Gavett Hall Room 312 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
28
Co-Located: ECE 436-1 (P), MSC 437-1, OPT 464-1, TEE 436-1
Instructors: Qiang Lin
Description: Various types of typical nanophotonic structures and nanomechanical structures, fundamental optical and mechanical properties: micro/nano-resonators, photonic crystals, plasmonic structures, metamaterials, nano-optomechanical structures. Cavity nonlinearoptics, cavity quantum optics, and cavity optomechanics. Fundamental physics and applications, state-of-art devices and current research trends. This class is designed primarily for graduate students. It may be suitable for senior undergraduates if they have required basic knowledge. Prerequisites:

ECE 230 or 235,/435; OPT 262 or 462, or 468, or 223, or 412;  PHY 237, or 407
Offered: Fall
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ECE 442-1 Network Science Analytics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Computer Studies Room 601 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: CSC 402-1 (P), DSCC 442-1, ECE 442-1
Instructors: Gonzalo Mateos Buckstein
Description: The science of networks is an emerging discipline of great importance that combines graph theory, probability and statistics, and facets of engineering and the social sciences. This course will provide students with the mathematical tools and computational training to understand large-scale networks in the current era of Big Data. It will introduce basic network models and structural descriptors, network dynamics and prediction of processes evolving on graphs, modern algorithms for topology inference, community and anomaly detection, as well as fundamentals of social network analysis. All concepts and theories will be illustrated with numerous applications and case studies from technological, social, biological, and information networks. prerequisites:

Some mathematical maturity, comfortable with linear algebra, probability, and analysis (e.g., MTH164-165). Exposure to programming and Matlab useful, but not required.
Offered: Spring
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ECE 449-1 Machine Vision Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
47 		Capacity     
75
Co-Located: BCSC 236-1, BCSC 536-1, CSC 249-1 (P), CSC 449-1, ECE 449-1, TCS 449-1
Instructors: Jiebo Luo
Description: Introduction to computer vision, including camera models, basic image processing, pattern and object recognition, and elements of human vision. Specific topics include geometric issues, statistical models, Hough transforms, color theory, texture, and optic flow. CSC 449, a graduate-level course, requires additional readings and assignments.

Prerequisites: MATH 161 and CSC 242; MATH 165 strongly recommended
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECE 455-1 Soft Analy & Improv Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CSC 255-1 (P), CSC 455-1, ECE 455-1, TCS 455-1
Instructors: Sreepathi Pai
Description: Programming is the automation of information processing. Program analysis and transformation is the automation of programming itself---how much a program can understand and improve other programs. Because of the diversity and complexity of computer hardware, programmers increasingly depend on automation in compilers and other tools to deliver efficient and reliable software. This course combines fundamental principles and (hands-on) practical applications. Specific topics include data flow and dependence theories; static and dynamic program transformation including parallelization; memory and cache management; type checking and program verification; and performance analysis and modeling. The knowledge and practice will help students to become experts in software performance and correctness. Students taking the graduate level will have additional course requirements and a more difficult project.

Recommended prerequisites: CSC 252, CSC 254
Offered: Spring
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ECE 472-1 Audio Signal Proc Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Computer Studies Room 601 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
28 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: AME 272-1 (P), ECE 272-1, ECE 472-1, TEE 472-1
Instructors: Sarah Smith
Description: This course is a survey of audio digital signal processing fundamentals and applications. Topics include sampling and quantization, analog to digital converters, time and frequency domains, spectral analysis, vocoding, digital filters, audio effects, music audio analysis and synthesis, and other advanced topics in audio signal processing. Implementation of algorithms using Matlab and on dedicated DSP platforms is emphasized. prerequisites: ECE 114 and basic Matlab programming, ECE 241 or equivalent 
Offered: Spring
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ECE 473-1 Audio for Gaming Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Computer Studies Room 616 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: AME 197-1 (P), ECE 473-1
Instructors: Robert LaVaque
Description: The course is intended to provide students a basic understanding of creating audio for gaming. The emphasis is on demonstrations and hands-on experience to enable students to gain a practical knowledge of the integration of sound and music into video games using middleware. Students will primarily work with Wwise, Reaper, Pro Tools, and Logic Pro X. The course will also feature guest lectures by industry leading professionals, who will share their experience and insights. For a final project, students will create their own music and sound for a provided game.

Topics will include soundtrack composition for interactive; Advanced sound effect creation, foley, Dialog recording and editing, and working within a game environment. Supplementary software discussed will include FMod, Unreal, and Nuendo. Prerequisite: AME 193 & 194, or a working knowledge of either Pro Tools, Logic Pro, or Reaper.
Offered: Fall Spring
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ECE 475-1 Audio Software Design Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Computer Studies Room 616 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
50
Co-Located: AME 262-1 (P), ECE 475-1, TEE 475-1
Instructors: Ming Lun Lee
Description: In this course, students will develop skills for designing audio/music applications and creating computer music in C and Max. We will begin with the history of computer music, a survey of audio programming languages, and a review of C. Libsndfile, a C library for reading and writing sound files, will be used to explore topics in sound synthesis, analysis, and digital signal processing. Students will use PortAudio, a C library for real-time audio input/output, to design DSP applications. Max is a visual programming language for interactive audio/music and multimedia. Students are required to watch pre-recorded lectures to learn Max and attend recitations for reviews. They will also practice their programming techniques through a series of programming assignments, a midterm drum machine project in Max, and a final research/design project.  . Prerequisite: ECE 114 or instructor permission
Offered: Fall
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ECE 480-1 Advanced Audio Amplifier Design Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 800 930 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
24
Co-Located: AME 293-1 (P), ECE 480-1
Instructors: Daniel Phinney
Description: Audio amplification concepts and design techniques focused on the use of vacuum tubes.  Will cover some concepts related to MOSFET amplifiers as well.  A mixture of lab based projects and LTSpice simulation.  Shall cover concepts related to impedance matching, preamps, class A and class AB power amplifiers, power supplies and grounding techniques. Prerequisites:

AME 295 or Instructor permission
Offered: Fall Spring
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ECE 489-1 Master's Research Seminar in Audio/Acoustics Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1150 1245 Computer Studies Room 616 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Ming Lun Lee
Description: In this course, students will review recent publications in the field of audio engineering in a group setting. Students will be expected give presentations on key papers within an assigned subfield, and facilitate group discussions on the topic. Subfields may include loudspeakers, headphones, sound quality prediction, audio for AR/VR, and spatial audio. Publications will be selected from the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society and other leading scientific journals. Prerequisites:

Basic knowledge of physics, acoustics, electronics, and signal processing.Only audio and acoustic students can register. Instructor permission only
Offered: Fall Spring
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ECE 492-1 Class D Amplifier Design Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 800 900 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
24
Instructors: Daniel Phinney
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Design of Audio Amplifiers focused on Class D designs.  To include power supply, layout and performance considerations.  Students will design and build a Class D amplifier as a final project. Prerequisites: AME 483, INSTRUCTOR PERMISSION ONLY
Offered: Fall
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ECE 495B-1 Ms Rsrch in Absentia Abroad Spring 2023 12.0 Closed
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECE 496-1 Special Projects in ECE Spring 2023 6.0 Open
Schedule:
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Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Ming Lun Lee
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECE 520-1 Spin Based Electronics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Computer Studies Room 426 01/09/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Hanan Dery
Description: Up until now CMOS scaling has given us a remarkable ride with little concern for fundamental limits. It has scaled multiple generations in feature size and in speed while keeping the same power densities. However,CMOS finally encounters fundamental limits. The course is intended for students interested in research frontiers of future electronics technologies. The course begins with introduction to the basic physics of magnetism and of quantum mechanical spin. Then it covers aspects of spin transport with emphasis on spin-diffusion in semiconductors. The second part of the course is comprised of student and lecturer presentations of selected spintronics topics which may include: spin transistors, magnetic random access memories, spin-based logic paradigms, spin-based lasers and light emitting diodes, magnetic semiconductors, spin-torque devices for memory applications and the spin Hall effect.
Offered: Spring
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ECE 597-1 ECE Colloquium Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1150 1305 Wegmans Room 1400 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
46 		Capacity     
0
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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Economics
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ECON 108-1 Principles of Economics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Strong Auditorium Room 011 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
243 		Capacity     
300
Instructors: Elizabeth Ashby
Description: The fundamentals of microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, with applications; preparation for subsequent economics courses.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 108-2 Principles of Economics Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Dewey Room 2110E 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
45 		Capacity     
45
Instructors: Elizabeth Ashby
Description: The fundamentals of microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, with applications; preparation for subsequent economics courses.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 207-1 Intermediate Microeconomics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Lattimore Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
115 		Capacity     
125
Instructors: Michael Rizzo
Description: The economics of consumer choice and the demand for goods; producer choice, including the supply of goods and the demand for labor and other inputs; the effects of competition and monopoly power on prices and production. Prerequisites: ECON 108
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 207-2 Intermediate Microeconomics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Hutchison Hall Room 140 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
100 		Capacity     
125
Instructors: Michael Rizzo
Description: The economics of consumer choice and the demand for goods; producer choice, including the supply of goods and the demand for labor and other inputs; the effects of competition and monopoly power on prices and production. Prerequisites: ECON 108
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 207H-1 Honors Intermediate Micro Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Meliora Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Yu Awaya
Restrictions: Instructor permission required for Undergraduates - AS&E
Description: This course shows how the choices of consumers and firms interact through markets to determine all the factors related to economic well being. In comparison to other sections of ECO 207, this section develops these choices more formally and mathematically.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 209-1 Intermediate Macroeconomics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Hylan Building Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
35 		Capacity     
50
Instructors: Christopher Sleet
Description: Economic growth, fluctuations, and other topics concerning the aggregate economy

Prerequisite: ECON 207
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 209-2 Intermediate Macroeconomics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Meliora Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
106 		Capacity     
125
Instructors: Hamid Firooz
Description: Economic growth, fluctuations, and other topics concerning the aggregate economy

Prerequisite: ECON 207
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ECON 214-1 Econ Theory of Organizations Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Meliora Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
33 		Capacity     
80
Co-Located: ECON 214-1, ECON 214W-1, STR 203-1 (P)
Instructors: Ronald Schmidt
Restrictions: Not open to First Year and Sophomore - AS&E
Description:
The course combines basic economic concepts with agency theory and the concept of specific knowledge to develop a framework for understanding how executive efforts to create organizations affect business outcomes. The building of that framework includes a discussion of executive talent. Topics considered include: the linkage between formulating corporate strategy and building organizations that facilitate its execution, the link between maintaining competitive relevance and organizational evolution, the importance of decentralization, the importance of performance-evaluation as a tool for achieving decentralization, the challenges of implementing incentives and the links between organizational structure and ethical conduct. The goal is to enable students to better understand when poor corporate performance is traceable to a flawed organizational structure.

First years and sophomores are not eligible for this course.

Prerequisite: ACC201; MKT203 and FIN204/205

Overlapped: ECON 214-1, ECON 214W-1, STR 203-1

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Schmidt will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ECON 214-2 Econ Theory of Organizations Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Dewey Room 2162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
48 		Capacity     
80
Co-Located: ECON 214-2, ECON 214W-2, STR 203-2 (P)
Instructors: Michael Raith
Restrictions: Not open to First Year and Sophomore - AS&E
Description: This course teaches how to approach and solve a wide range of organizational design problems, whether as manager at any level, entrepreneur, or consultant. In a world in which most sources of competitive advantage are fleeting, organizational effectiveness has emerged as a key source of long-run competitive advantage. Conversely, many corporate failures can be traced to poor internal organization. Problems covered range from individual job design to the structure of entire organizations and the boundaries of the firm (e.g., M&A decisions or vertical integration). The course discusses in detail the assignment of decision rights (including centralization vs. decentralization of decisions), performance measurement, and incentives and rewards. These are the three elements of “organizational architecture,” a central framework of the course. Throughout, the course stresses the importance of fit between a firm’s internal organization and its strategy. The course adopts an analytical-economic perspective that is grounded in the field of organizational economics. It also addresses the managerial and behavioral dimensions of organizational problems, drawing on insights from psychology and sociology as appropriate.

First year and sophomore students are not eligible for this course.

Prerequisite: ECON 207

Overlapped: STR 203-2, ECON 214W-2, ECON 214-2

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Raith will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ECON 214W-1 Economic Theory of Organizations Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Meliora Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
33 		Capacity     
80
Co-Located: ECON 214-1, ECON 214W-1, STR 203-1 (P)
Instructors: Ronald Schmidt
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description:
The course combines basic economic concepts with agency theory and the concept of specific knowledge to develop a framework for understanding how executive efforts to create organizations affect business outcomes. The building of that framework includes a discussion of executive talent. Topics considered include: the linkage between formulating corporate strategy and building organizations that facilitate its execution, the link between maintaining competitive relevance and organizational evolution, the importance of decentralization, the importance of performance-evaluation as a tool for achieving decentralization, the challenges of implementing incentives and the links between organizational structure and ethical conduct. The goal is to enable students to better understand when poor corporate performance is traceable to a flawed organizational structure.

To enroll in this "W" section, request a course override and email ugbusiness@rochester.edu for approval.

First year and sophomores are not eligible for this course.

Prerequisite: ACC201; MKT203 and FIN204/205

Overlapped: ECON 214-1, ECON 214W-1, STR 203-1

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Schmidt will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Spring
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ECON 214W-2 Economic Theory of Organizations Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Dewey Room 2162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
48 		Capacity     
80
Co-Located: ECON 214-2, ECON 214W-2, STR 203-2 (P)
Instructors: Michael Raith
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The course combines basic economic concepts with agency theory and the concept of specific knowledge to develop a framework for understanding how executive efforts to create organizations affect business outcomes. The building of that framework includes a discussion of executive talent. Topics considered include: the linkage between formulating corporate strategy and building organizations that facilitate its execution, the link between maintaining competitive relevance and organizational evolution, the importance of decentralization, the importance of performance-evaluation as a tool for achieving decentralization, the challenges of implementing incentives and the links between organizational structure and ethical conduct. The goal is to enable students to better understand when poor corporate performance is traceable to a flawed organizational structure.

First year and sophomore students are not eligible for this course.

To enroll in this "W" section, request a course override and email ugbusiness@rochester.edu for approval.

Prerequisite: ACC201; MKT203 or FIN204/205

Overlapped: ECON 214-1, ECON 214W-1, STR 203-1

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Schmidt will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Spring
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ECON 220W-1 Fair Allocation Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Meliora Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: William Thomson
Description: The course is an introduction to the mathematical modeling of problems of fairness in resource allocation. Among the types of problems we will seek to analyze are: - How should the Red Cross distribute supplies among refugees in a refugee camp.- How should housemates split the rent when the rooms in the house they share have different features that each housemate values differently.- How should students in a dance class be organized in male-female pairs when each male student has preferences over female partners and each female student has preferences over male partners?- When a firm goes bankrupt, how should it liquidation value be divided among its creditors?
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 224-1 Economics of Sports Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Harkness Room 115 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
69 		Capacity     
70
Co-Located: ECON 224-1 (P), ECON 224W-1
Instructors: Michael Rizzo
Description: Should we expect American League batters to be beaned by more pitches than their National League counterparts? Are investments in sports stadiums good for economic development? How prevalent is discrimination in sports and can it be measured? Should college athletes be paid? Is there any justification for professional sports leagues exemption from anti-trust statutes? What do players unions do? What does and does not promote competitive balance in college football and the major sports? What can golf teach us about the Executive Pay crisis? Should gambling on sports be legal? Is there such a thing as the hot hand? Why do alcohol and sports(seem to)go together? Is the NFL on the decline?These and many other exciting questions related to sports, media and entertainment(though mostly sports)will be covered. Like its popular consideration as a metaphor for life, sports economics is a popular examination ground for more traditional theoretical economics in particular for topics in Labor Economics and Industry.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 224W-1 Sports and Economics Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Harkness Room 115 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: ECON 224-1 (P), ECON 224W-1
Instructors: Michael Rizzo
Description: Should we expect American League batters to be beaned by more pitches than their National League counterparts? Are investments in sports stadiums good for economic development? How prevalent is discrimination in sports and can it be measured? Should college athletes be paid? Is there any justification for professional sports leagues exemption from anti-trust statutes? What do players unions do? What does and does not promote competitive balance in college football and the major sports? What can golf teach us about the Executive Pay crisis? Should gambling on sports be legal? Is there such a thing as the hot hand? Why do alcohol and sports(seem to)go together? Is the NFL on the decline?These and many other exciting questions related to sports, media and entertainment(though mostly sports)will be covered. Like its popular consideration as a metaphor for life, sports economics is a popular examination ground for more traditional theoretical economics in particular for topics in Labor Economics and Industry.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 225-1 Freakonomics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Gavett Hall Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
35 		Capacity     
65
Co-Located: ECON 225-1 (P), ECON 225W-1
Instructors: Lisa Kahn
Description: This course shows how to apply standard economics principles, methods and tools to non-standard settings. Through real-life examples, students gain a better understanding of economic principles. We also devote attention to understanding the difference between correlation and causation. The course therefore teaches students to be more analytical consumers of popular science.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 225W-1 Freakonomics Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Gavett Hall Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: ECON 225-1 (P), ECON 225W-1
Instructors: Lisa Kahn
Description: This course shows how to apply standard economics principles, methods and tools to non-standard settings. Through real-life examples, students gain a better understanding of economic principles. We also devote attention to understanding the difference between correlation and causation. The course therefore teaches students to be more analytical consumers of popular science.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 231W-1 Econometrics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Meliora Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
84 		Capacity     
100
Instructors: Teng Kok Tan
Description: The course is an introduction to the application of econometric methods. It covers the basic tools of estimation and inference of cross-section models. Prerequisites are 1 semester of calculus (MATH 141 or MATH 161 or MATH 171), ECON 207 (can be taking at same time), and ECON 230 or STAT 213 or MATH/STAT 203 or DCSC 262
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 231W-2 Econometrics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Harkness Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
40
Instructors: Teng Kok Tan
Description: The course is an introduction to the application of econometric methods. It covers the basic tools of estimation and inference of cross-section models. Prerequisites are 1 semester of calculus (Mth 141 or Mth161 or Mth171), Eco 207 (can be taking at same time), and Eco 230 or Stat 213 or Math/Stat 203 or DSC262
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 236-1 Health Economics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Samuel Ogie
Description: Analysis of factors that affect supply and demand in the market for medical care: risk, insurance, externalities, ethics, regulation.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 237-1 Economics of Education Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Hylan Building Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ECON 237-1 (P), ECON 237W-1
Instructors: John Singleton
Description: This course applied theoretical and empirical methods of economics to the analysis of elementary and secondary education in the United States. Topics include, but will not be limited to: education investment decisions of individuals and society; measuring the returns to education; the production of human capital with a focus on the role of school inputs' and evaluating recent k-12 education reforms (high-stakes testing, school choice,school finance) and higher education reforms (financial aid, affirmative action). Students will learn about the practical challenges of education research and how to distinguish good empirical research from bad. Assignments will include both solving theoretical problems and critiquing current research.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 237W-1 Economics of Education Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Hylan Building Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: ECON 237-1 (P), ECON 237W-1
Instructors: John Singleton
Description: This course applied theoretical and empirical methods of economics to the analysis of elementary and secondary education in the United States. Topics include, but will not be limited to: education investment decisions of individuals and society; measuring the returns to education; the production of human capital with a focus on the role of school inputs' and evaluating recent k-12 education reforms (high-stakes testing, school choice,school finance) and higher education reforms (financial aid, affirmative action). Students will learn about the practical challenges of education research and how to distinguish good empirical research from bad. Assignments will include both solving theoretical problems and critiquing current research.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 263-1 Public Finance Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Dewey Room 1101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: ECON 263-1 (P), ECON 263W-1
Instructors: Elizabeth Ashby
Description: This course is intended to be an introduction to the study of the role of government in the economy, with an emphasis on the microeconomic aspects of this role. Both the taxation and the expenditure sides of government activity will be studied. The first part of the course will be devoted to the theory of public finance in order to build a foundation for the remainder of the course, which involved the application of this theory to particular programs and institutions (policy analysis). Typical topic include: public goods, social security, income taxation, tax reform, fiscal federalism, ect.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 263W-1 Public Finance Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Dewey Room 1101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: ECON 263-1 (P), ECON 263W-1
Instructors: Elizabeth Ashby
Description: This course is intended to be an introduction to the study of the role of government in the economy, with an emphasis on the microeconomic aspects of this role. Both the taxation and the expenditure sides of government activity will be studied. The first part of the course will be devoted to the theory of public finance in order to build a foundation for the remainder of the course, which involved the application of this theory to particular programs and institutions (policy analysis). Typical topic include: public goods, social security, income taxation, tax reform, fiscal federalism, ect.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 268-1 Economics of Globalization Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ECON 268-1 (P), ECON 268W-1
Instructors: Gaston Chaumont
Description: This course studies the economics of world integration. We will explore the arguments for and against opening an economy to international trade in goods and financial capital. We will specifically focus on the implications of openness for welfare, growth, volatility, and inequality. The course will include economic theory as well as several applications. Applications include the growth miracles of East Asia, Indias recent transformation, emerging market crises of the 1900s, aid and development in Africa, and the impact of trade on wages in the United States. Prerequisite is ECON 108
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 268W-1 Economics of Globalization Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: ECON 268-1 (P), ECON 268W-1
Instructors: Gaston Chaumont
Description: This course studies the economics of world integration. We will explore the arguments for and against opening an economy to international trade in goods and financial capital. We will specifically focus on the implications of openness for welfare, growth, volatility, and inequality. The course will include economic theory as well as several applications. Applications include the growth miracles of East Asia, Indias recent transformation, emerging market crises of the 1900s, aid and development in Africa, and the impact of trade on wages in the United States.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 288-1 Game Theory Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Meliora Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
100 		Capacity     
125
Instructors: Anastassios Kalandrakis
Description: Game theory is a systematic study of strategic situations. It is a theory that helps us analyze economic and political strategic issues, such as behavior of individuals in a group, competition among firms in a market, platform choices of political candidates, and so on. We will develop the basic concepts and results of game theory, including simultaneous and sequential move games, repeated games and games with incomplete information. The objective of the course is to enable the student to analyze strategic situations on his or her own. The emphasis of the course is on theoretical aspects of strategic behavior, so familiarity with mathematical formalism is required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 289W-1 ECO Research and Comm Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1025 1140 Harkness Room 113 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Lorenz Ekerdt
Description: This course will guide students through the process of formulating economic hypotheses, gathering the appropriate empirical data, cleaning and analyzing the data with descriptive and econometric tools using statistical software, and effectively communicating research findings in writing and presentations.

Prerequisites: ECON 207, ECON 231W

Offered: Fall Spring
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ECON 390-10 Supervised Teaching - ECON 108 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Elizabeth Ashby
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Responsibility for one recitation section and/or for holding office hours under the instructors supervision. Departmental approval required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 390-11 Supervised Teaching - ECON 268 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Gaston Chaumont
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Responsibility for one recitation section and/or for holding office hours under the instructors supervision. Departmental approval required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 390-12 Supervised Teaching - ECON 108 Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Elizabeth Ashby
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Responsibility for one recitation section and/or for holding office hours under the instructors supervision. Departmental approval required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 390-2 Supervised Teaching ECON 207 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Michael Rizzo
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Responsibility for one recitation section and/or for holding office hours under the instructors supervision. Departmental approval required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 390-3 Supervised Teaching ECON 224 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Michael Rizzo
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Responsibility for one recitation section and/or for holding office hours under the instructors supervision. Departmental approval required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 390-6 Supervised Teaching ECON 208 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Steven Landsburg
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Responsibility for one recitation section and/or for holding office hours under the instructors supervision. Departmental approval required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 390-7 Supervised Teaching - ECON 209 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Hamid Firooz
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Responsibility for one recitation section and/or for holding office hours under the instructors supervision. Departmental approval required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 390-8 Supervised Teaching - ECON 225 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Lisa Kahn
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Responsibility for one recitation section and/or for holding office hours under the instructors supervision. Departmental approval required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 390-9 Supervised Teaching - ECON 226 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Alexandra Digby
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Responsibility for one recitation section and/or for holding office hours under the instructors supervision. Departmental approval required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 472-1 Modern Value Theory Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 915 1055 Harkness Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
28
Instructors: Paulo Barelli
Description: Introduction to non-cooperative game theory, asymmetric information models, and social choice theory
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 476-1 Macroeconomics II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Harkness Room 208 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Narayana Kocherlakota; Christopher Sleet
Description: This course continues on with the theme developed in 475: understanding modern macroeconomics based on dynamic optimization in a general equilibrium environment. The emphasis is placed on understanding business cycles, economic growth, fiscal and monetary policies.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 482-1 Math Economics Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Harkness Room 208 01/11/2023 03/03/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Srihari Govindan
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 485-1 Intro to Econometrics I Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1100 1215 Harkness Room 208 01/11/2023 03/03/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
22 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Bin Chen
Description: (Same as APS 515)Extensions of the general linear model to handle serial correlation, heteroskedasticity, simultaneity. Maximum likelihood estimation and testing. Diagnostic checking of estimated models. Problems in the analysis of individual unit data-qualitative dependent variables and sample self-selectivity.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 486-1 Intro to Econometrics II Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1100 1215 Harkness Room 208 03/13/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Bin Chen
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 487-1 Applied Econometrics Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1300 1610 Harkness Room 208 03/13/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Lisa Kahn
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 492-1 Mathematical Economics III Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Harkness Room 208 03/13/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Srihari Govindan
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 493-1 Master's Essay Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Mark Bils
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 493-10 Master's Essay Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Bin Chen
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 493-2 Master's Essay Spring 2023 5.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Yan Bai
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 493-3 Master's Essay Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Asen Kochov
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 493-4 Master's Essay Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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30
Instructors: Paulo Barelli
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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 493-5 Master's Essay Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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30
Instructors: Ronni Pavan
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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 493-6 Master's Essay Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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30
Instructors: George Alessandria
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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 493-7 Master's Essay Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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Instructors: Lisa Kahn
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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 493-8 Master's Essay Spring 2023 2.0 Open
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30
Instructors: Nese Yildiz
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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 493-9 Master's Essay Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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Instructors: Travis Baseler
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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 502-2 Discrete Choice Models Spring 2023 2.0 Open
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MW 930 1045 Harkness Room 208 03/13/2023 05/06/2023
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8 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: John Singleton
Description: Selected topics in labor economics are discussed. The topics vary from year to year. In recent years, topics have included human capital models of wage growth, wage inequality, and labor policy.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 503-1 Labor Economics II Spring 2023 2.0 Open
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TR 930 1045 Harkness Room 208 01/11/2023 03/03/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Ronni Pavan
Description: The course is a mix between methods and topics. The first half of the course focuses on estimating dynamic discrete choice (DDC) models, a common tool used in structural labor, education, and industrial organization. The second half of the course then examines topics related to the development of human capital, often through the lens of DDC models. The topics typically include human capital related issues in K-12 education, higher education, early childhood investments, and understanding the returns to human capital in the labor market.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 508-1 Theory Workshop II Spring 2023 5.0 Open
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1530 1700 Harkness Room 208 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Paulo Barelli
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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 513-1 International Economics I Spring 2023 2.0 Open
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M 1700 1950 Harkness Room 208 01/11/2023 03/03/2023
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1 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Gaston Chaumont
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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 532-1 Macroeconomics Workshop II Spring 2023 5.0 Open
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M 1530 1700 Harkness Room 208 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
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4 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Mark Bils
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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 534-1 Topics in Macroeconomics I Spring 2023 2.0 Open
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T 1245 1530 Harkness Room 112 01/11/2023 03/03/2023
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1 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Christopher Sleet
Description: This is a doctoral level course in macroeconomics. Topics covered in the course are aggregate implications of financial imperfections. We will review recent papers on the implications of financial imperfections on business cycles, asset prices, government policies, firms and open economy issues.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 536-1 Topics in Macroeconomics III Spring 2023 2.0 Open
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T 1245 1530 Harkness Room 112 03/13/2023 05/06/2023
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2 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Narayana Kocherlakota
Description: The course considers theories of aggregate fluctuations and unemployment in light of a broad set of empirical regularities.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 541-1 Topics in Microeconometrics I Spring 2023 2.0 Open
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M 1045 1315 Harkness Room 113 01/11/2023 03/03/2023
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7 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Nese Yildiz
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Offered: Fall Spring
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ECON 542-2 Topics in Microeconometrics II Spring 2023 2.0 Open
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M 1045 1315 Harkness Room 113 03/13/2023 05/06/2023
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4 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Nese Yildiz
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall
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ECON 543-1 Topics in Macroeconometrics I Spring 2023 2.0 Open
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M 1330 1630 Harkness Room 113 01/11/2023 03/03/2023
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6 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Bin Chen
Offered: Fall
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ECON 544-1 Topics in Macroeconometrics II Spring 2023 2.0 Open
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M 1330 1600 Harkness Room 113 03/13/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Bin Chen
Description: This course would focus on high dimensional econometric models and machine learning methods.
Offered: Fall
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ECON 548-1 Econometrics Workshop II Spring 2023 5.0 Open
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R 1530 1730 Harkness Room 208 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
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0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Nese Yildiz
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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 552-1 Applied Workshop II Spring 2023 5.0 Open
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T 1530 1700 Harkness Room 208 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
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2 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Ronni Pavan
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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 571-1 Macroeconomics Reading Group II Spring 2023 2.0 Open
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F 1045 1200 Harkness Room 208 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
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1 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Mark Bils
Description: Faculty and Students will go through a series of recent working papers in macroeconomics with emphasis on quantitative and empirical topics.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 572-1 Theory Reading Group II Spring 2023 2.0 Open
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T 1730 1900 Harkness Room 208 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
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2 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Paulo Barelli
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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 573-1 Applied Reading Group II Spring 2023 2.0 Open
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T 1230 1345 Harkness Room 208 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
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5 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Ronni Pavan
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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ECON 578-1 International Reading Group II Spring 2023 2.0 Open
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W 1230 1345 Harkness Room 208 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
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2 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: George Alessandria
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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Earth & Environmental Science
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EESC 100-1 Intro to Oceanography Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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TR 1525 1640 Gavett Hall Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
57 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Chiara Borrelli
Description: This class is in basic oceanography. Oceanography is the study of marine systems from a physical, chemical, geological, and biological point of view. In this class, we will explore the formation and structure of the oceanic basins, the geochemistry of seawater and sediments, the ocean circulation patterns, and the composition and distribution of biological populations as a function of different physical and chemical variables. At the end of the semester, we will discuss some special topics, such as global warming and ocean acidification, overfishing, and coastal pollution. Clusters:N1 INT 003N1 INT 015N1 EES 007N1 EES 004
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 103-1 Intro to Environmental Science Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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MWF 1150 1240 Bausch & Lomb Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
90 		Capacity     
110
Co-Located: EESC 103-1 (P), SUST 103-1
Instructors: Karen Berger
Description: A comprehensive overview of fundamental scientific concepts in environmental science and the interactions between humans and their environment. Modules address ecological and human systems; air and water; energy and climate; and food and waste. The goals are to provide students with critical thinking skills and a level of scientific literacy for further study of environmental issues and to create informed and engaged citizens and consumers. Students are required to register for a weekly recitation.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 201-1 Evolution of the Earth Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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MWF 1025 1115 Meliora Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
56 		Capacity     
60
Co-Located: EESC 201-1 (P), SUST 201-1
Instructors: Rory Cottrell
Description: Historical geology encompasses the (1) dynamic history of the physical earth: the development of land forms, rise and fall of ancient seas, movements of continents, etc., and (2) the evolution of historical geology such as paleontology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, geochronology, and plate tectonics, and a chronological survey of earth and life history, emphasizing the evolution of North America.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 204-1 Earth Materials Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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MW 1025 1140 Hutchison Hall Room 138 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: EESC 204-1 (P), EESC 204W-2, EESC 404-1
Instructors: Julia Masny
Description: Pre-Reqs: EESC 101 or permission of instructor


Most of the Earth–from surface to core– is made up of crystalline material (minerals), but with important minor components of water-rich fluids and magmas which are responsible for the destruction and creation of new minerals.  Together these ‘earth materials’ – and the processes responsible for them coming into being – have shaped Earth for over 4.5 billion years.  We will explore the properties of earth materials including their atomic structure, their physical and chemical stability, and the basic principles that govern the chemical composition, occurrence, structure, and classification of minerals.  A portion of the course will be devoted to the study of other terrestrial bodies (e.g., Mars and the Moon) and meteorites that make up the primordial building material for planets that we see today.  
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 204W-2 Earth Materials Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Hutchison Hall Room 138 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: EESC 204-1 (P), EESC 204W-2, EESC 404-1
Instructors: Julia Masny
Description:
Pre-Reqs: EESC 101 or permission of instructor


Most of the Earth–from surface to core– is made up of crystalline material (minerals), but with important minor components of water-rich fluids and magmas which are responsible for the destruction and creation of new minerals.  Together these ‘earth materials’ – and the processes responsible for them coming into being – have shaped Earth for over 4.5 billion years.  We will explore the properties of earth materials including their atomic structure, their physical and chemical stability, and the basic principles that govern the chemical composition, occurrence, structure, and classification of minerals.  A portion of the course will be devoted to the study of other terrestrial bodies (e.g., Mars and the Moon) and meteorites that make up the primordial building material for planets that we see today.  
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 211-1 Nature's Fury Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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MWF 900 950 Hylan Building Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
0
Co-Located: EESC 211-1 (P), EESC 211W-1
Instructors: Tolulope Olugboji
Description: Pre-Reqs: EESC 101 or permission of instructor


We live on a dynamic planet. The seemingly tranquil, unchanging landscape of the Earth's surface is often interrupted by abrupt, catastrophic events. Earthquakes, landslides, and tsunami lay waste to buildings, towns and sometimes entire cities. Dormant volcanoes come to life in explosions of lava and large volumes of aerosols and greenhouse gases, with implications for global climate change. In this course, we learn how these geological hazards are a violent manifestation of plate tectonics. The first third of the class focuses on the causative mechanisms of geological disasters (i.e. earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami). The second third explains how meteorological and cosmological hazards (i.e. storms, floods, space weather, etc.) are a manifestation of solar and orbital energy release concentrated in space and time. The final third examines how science, technology and public policy help shape mitigation programs, and connections to history, human growth, and the rise and fall of civilizations.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 211W-1 Nature's Fury Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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MWF 900 950 Hylan Building Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
0
Co-Located: EESC 211-1 (P), EESC 211W-1
Instructors: Tolulope Olugboji
Description: Pre-Reqs: EESC 101 or permission of instructor

We live on a dynamic planet. The seemingly tranquil, unchanging landscape of the Earth's surface is often interrupted by abrupt, catastrophic events. Earthquakes, landslides, and tsunami lay waste to buildings, towns and sometimes entire cities. Dormant volcanoes come to life in explosions of lava and large volumes of aerosols and greenhouse gases, with implications for global climate change. In this course, we learn how these geological hazards are a violent manifestation of plate tectonics. The first third of the class focuses on the causative mechanisms of geological disasters (i.e. earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami). The second third explains how meteorological and cosmological hazards (i.e. storms, floods, space weather, etc.) are a manifestation of solar and orbital energy release concentrated in space and time. The final third examines how science, technology and public policy help shape mitigation programs, and connections to history, human growth, and the rise and fall of civilizations.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 216-1 Environmental Geochemistry Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: EESC 216-1 (P), EESC 216W-1, EESC 416-1
Instructors: Erin Black
Description: Pre-Reqs: EESC 101, CHEM 131, MATH 141 

This course presents the geochemical principles and tools that are needed to understand natural perturbations in earth’s hydrosphere and the fate of anthropogenic pollutants. Topics will include thermodynamics, kinetics, acid-base equilibria, oxidation-reduction reactions, carbon chemistry, and basic isotope geochemistry. Class discussions and assignments will focus on the practical application of these topics to local and global environmental issues. Enrollment in lab is required. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 216W-1 Environmental Geochemistry Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: EESC 216-1 (P), EESC 216W-1, EESC 416-1
Instructors: Erin Black
Description: Pre-Reqs: EESC 101, CHEM 131, MATH 141 

This course presents the geochemical principles and tools that are needed to understand natural perturbations in earth’s hydrosphere and the fate of anthropogenic pollutants. Topics will include thermodynamics, kinetics, acid-base equilibria, oxidation-reduction reactions, carbon chemistry, and basic isotope geochemistry. Class discussions and assignments will focus on the practical application of these topics to local and global environmental issues. Enrollment in lab is required. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 218-1 Intro to Atmospheric Chemistry Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Harkness Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: EESC 218-1 (P), EESC 418-1
Instructors: Lee Murray
Description: Pre-Reqs: EESC 101 or 103 or 105, CHEM 131 or equivalent, MATH 141-142 or equivalent, CHEM 132 or equivalent recommended but not required


The atmosphere helps to maintain habitable temperatures on our planet's surface, shields life from destructive cosmic and ultraviolet radiation and contains gases such as oxygen and carbon dioxide, which are essential for life. In this course we will work toward an understanding of several important questions. What is in the Earth's atmosphere? How is the atmosphere structured? What is the role of the atmosphere in determining Earth's climate? What are the sources and sinks of the most important gases in the atmosphere? What is the role of photochemistry in atmospheric composition? How has human activity affected the atmosphere? Students will also learn some practical skills essential in the study of atmospheric chemistry, such as working with geochemical box models. Recitation is required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 223-1 Earth Surface Processes: The Science of Scenery Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Hylan Building Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: EESC 223-1 (P), EESC 423-1
Instructors: Rachel Glade
Description:
Earth’s surface is constantly changing as water, wind and gravity sculpt landscapes. In this course, we will cover the physics of sediment transport and landscape change with respect to rivers, hillslopes, glaciers, sand dunes and more. We will focus on both fundamental concepts and new research, with labs and field trips to support lecture material. 
Offered: Fall Spring
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EESC 225-1 Seismic Signals & Noise Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Morey Room 525 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ECE 248-1, EESC 225-1 (P), EESC 425-1
Instructors: Tolulope Olugboji
Description: Prereqs: General Calculus (MTH140 or MTH 160 sequences). The first course in physics: i.e. general physics I or mechanics (i.e., PHY121 taken concurrently), can provide a helpful background

Research frontiers in earth imaging, quake detection, volcano and nuclear explosion monitoring, require extraction of seismic and acoustic signals buried in noise. Seismo-acoustic signals are mechanical vibrations generated in the solid earth and its coupling with the fluid atmosphere and oceans. In this course we will introduce linear system theory, digital signal processing and how they enable routine processing of recorded Seismo-acoustic waves contaminated by the nuisance of ‘noise’. Topics include Fourier analysis, spectrograms, z-transforms, poles-zeros, instrument design, (de-)convolution, autocorrelation, cross-spectra, and filter theory: homomorphic filters, cepstral analysis. Exemplary data will cover geotechnical engineering, forensic, exploration, glacial, submarine and planetary seismology.
Offered: Spring
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EESC 233-1 Marine Ecosys&Carbn Cyc Mod Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Goergen Hall Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: EESC 233-1 (P), EESC 433-1
Instructors: Thomas Weber
Description: Over the last few decades, numerical biogeochemical models have provided new insights into the marine carbon cycle, its contribution to past climate change, and its potential responses to future climate warming. In this practical class, students will build simple biogeochemical models-ranging from 'box' models of marine microbial ecosystems to three-dimensional nutrient cycling models-and design experiments to address climate change hypotheses. They will also be taught to analyze output from state-of-the-art climate models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Students will not only learn invaluable programming skills, but also gain a deeper intuition of the ocean carbon cycling and its role in the global climate system.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 251-1 Intro to Geographic Info Systems Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Goergen Hall Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
24
Instructors: Jonathon Little
Description: This course combines lectures and hands-on weekly labs, to introduce students to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools and concepts. Using both commercial (ArcGIS) and open source software (QGIS, OpenLayers), we will cover: GIS data structures, map projections, collecting and creating GIS data, map making, exploring spatial patterns and data visualization. Topics will be framed using examples across disciplines (e.g. physical sciences, humanities and social sciences). At the end of the semester, students will complete a final project, in which they can apply their learning to their own major area of study. Despite the technical nature of this course, no prerequisites are required and material is appropriate for all students. Student learning will be assessed throughout the semester via class participation, a mid-term exam and the final project.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 255-1 Planetary Sci-Geol Evolutn Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 900 950 Hutchison Hall Room 138 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
0
Co-Located: EESC 255-1 (P), EESC 255W-1, EESC 455-1
Instructors: Julia Masny
Description:

Pre-Reqs: EES 101 or 201 strongly recommended.


This course will focus on geologic and geophysical studies of planets (interiors and surfaces), and the conditions that led to the origin of life. We will start with initial conditions, defined here as the formation of Earth and the Moon-forming event, and trace development of the planet from cooling of the magma ocean onwards. We next consider how our planetary neighbors (Venus and Mars) evolved, as well as key satellites in the solar system that may harbor life, or provide insight into early conditions on Earth.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 255W-1 Planetary Sci-Geol Evolutn Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 900 950 Hutchison Hall Room 138 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
0
Co-Located: EESC 255-1 (P), EESC 255W-1, EESC 455-1
Instructors: Julia Masny
Description:

Pre-Reqs: EES 101 or 201 strongly recommended.

This course will focus on geologic and geophysical studies of planets (interiors and surfaces), and the conditions that led to the origin of life. We will start with initial conditions, defined here as the formation of Earth and the Moon-forming event, and trace development of the planet from cooling of the magma ocean onwards. We next consider how our planetary neighbors (Venus and Mars) evolved, as well as key satellites in the solar system that may harbor life, or provide insight into early conditions on Earth.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 298-1 Intro to Research: Archeomagnetism in Africa Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: John Tarduno
Description: A basic introduction to research in the Earth and Environmental Sciences will be provided. The seminar will feature research in the paleomagnetism, and in particular studies of the recent decay of field strength as recorded in southern Africa. The course is a prequisite for students planning on summer field studies in Africa as part of one of the expeditions of the Paleomagnetic research group. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 310-1 Science & Sustainability Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1525 1805 Hylan Building Room 105 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: EESC 310-1 (P), EESC 310W-1, SUST 310-1
Instructors: Chiara Borrelli
Description: The goal of this course is to acquaint students with a range of topics in the natural and social sciences that relate to environmental change. Students will attend weekly lectures in the Sustainability Speakers Series, to be given by faculty from around the University of Rochester and neighboring institutions. In addition to attending lectures, students will read material relevant to each week's lecture topics, and will participate in discussions that will follow the lectures. Grading will be based on attendance and active participation in lectures and discussions, as well as periodic written assignments.Clusters:Science and Sustainability (N1SUS001)Sustainability and the Humanities (H1SUS001)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 310W-1 Science & Sustainability Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1525 1805 Hylan Building Room 105 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: EESC 310-1 (P), EESC 310W-1, SUST 310-1
Instructors: Chiara Borrelli
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The goal of this course is to acquaint students with a range of topics in the natural and social sciences that relate to environmental change. Students will attend weekly lectures in the Sustainability Speakers Series, to be given by faculty from around the University of Rochester and neighboring institutions. In addition to attending lectures, students will read material relevant to each week's lecture topics, and will participate in discussions that will follow the lectures. Grading will be based on attendance and active participation in lectures and discussions, as well as periodic written assignments.Clusters:Science and Sustainability (N1SUS001)Sustainability and the Humanities (H1SUS001)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 390-2 Supervised Teaching-EESC 310 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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1 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Chiara Borrelli
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: EESC 390 section for EESC 310
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 390-3 Supervised Teaching-EESC 100 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Chiara Borrelli
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: EESC 390 section for EESC 100
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 390-4 Supervised Teaching-EESC 201 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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0 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Rory Cottrell
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: EESC Supervised College Teaching
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 390-5 Supervised Teaching-EESC 103 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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2 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Karen Berger
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Supervised Teaching for EESC 103
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 390-6 Supervised Teaching-EESC 251 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Jonathon Little
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: EESC 390 for EESC 251
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 390A-1 Supervised Teaching-EESC 103 Spring 2023 2.0 Open
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1 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Karen Berger
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Supervised Teaching for EESC 103
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 390A-2 Supervised Teaching - EESC 201 Spring 2023 2.0 Open
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10
Instructors: Rory Cottrell
Description: EESC 201 supervised college teaching (2cr.)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 393W-1 Senior Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Chiara Borrelli
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Senior Thesis
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 393W-2 Senior Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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10
Instructors: John Tarduno
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Senior Thesis
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 393W-3 Senior Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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10
Instructors: Gautam Mitra
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Senior Thesis
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 393W-4 Senior Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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1 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Dustin Trail
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Senior Thesis
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 393W-5 Senior Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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1 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: John Kessler
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Senior Thesis
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 393W-6 Senior Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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10
Instructors: Thomas Weber
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Senior Thesis
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 404-1 Earth Materials Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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MW 1025 1140 Hutchison Hall Room 138 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: EESC 204-1 (P), EESC 204W-2, EESC 404-1
Instructors: Julia Masny
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description:
Most of the Earth–from surface to core– is made up of crystalline material (minerals), but with important minor components of water-rich fluids and magmas which are responsible for the destruction and creation of new minerals.  Together these ‘earth materials’ – and the processes responsible for them coming into being – have shaped Earth for over 4.5 billion years.  We will explore the properties of earth materials including their atomic structure, their physical and chemical stability, and the basic principles that govern the chemical composition, occurrence, structure, and classification of minerals.  A portion of the course will be devoted to the study of other terrestrial bodies (e.g., Mars and the Moon) and meteorites that make up the primordial building material for planets that we see today.  
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 416-1 Environmental Geochemistry Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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TR 940 1055 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: EESC 216-1 (P), EESC 216W-1, EESC 416-1
Instructors: Erin Black
Description: This course presents the geochemical principles and tools that are needed to understand natural perturbations in earth’s hydrosphere and the fate of anthropogenic pollutants. Topics will include thermodynamics, kinetics, acid-base equilibria, oxidation-reduction reactions, carbon chemistry, and basic isotope geochemistry. Class discussions and assignments will focus on the practical application of these topics to local and global environmental issues. Enrollment in lab is required. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 418-1 Intro to Atmospheric Chemistry Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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TR 1105 1220 Harkness Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: EESC 218-1 (P), EESC 418-1
Instructors: Lee Murray
Description: The atmosphere helps to maintain habitable temperatures on our planet's surface, shields life from destructive cosmic and ultraviolet radiation and contains gases such as oxygen and carbon dioxide, which are essential for life. In this course we will use lectures, discussions and hands-on activities to work toward an understanding of several important questions. How did the Earth acquire and atmosphere? What is in the Earth's atmosphere? What are the sources and sinks of the most important gases in the atmosphere? What is the role of photochemistry in atmospheric composition? How does the atmosphere interact with the land and oceans? How has human activity affected the atmosphere?
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 423-1 Earth Surface Processes: The Science of Scenery Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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TR 1230 1345 Hylan Building Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: EESC 223-1 (P), EESC 423-1
Instructors: Rachel Glade
Description:
Earth’s surface is constantly changing as water, wind and gravity sculpt landscapes. In this course, we will cover the physics of sediment transport and landscape change with respect to rivers, hillslopes, glaciers, sand dunes and more. We will focus on both fundamental concepts and new research, with labs and field trips to support lecture material. 
Offered: Spring
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EESC 425-1 Seismic Signals & Noise Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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MW 1150 1305 Morey Room 525 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ECE 248-1, EESC 225-1 (P), EESC 425-1
Instructors: Tolulope Olugboji
Description: Research frontiers in earth imaging, quake detection, volcano and nuclear explosion monitoring, require extraction of seismic and acoustic signals buried in noise. Seismo-acoustic signals are mechanical vibrations generated in the solid earth and its coupling with the fluid atmosphere and oceans. In this course we will introduce linear system theory, digital signal processing and how they enable routine processing of recorded Seismo-acoustic waves contaminated by the nuisance of ‘noise’. Topics include Fourier analysis, spectrograms, z-transforms, poles-zeros, instrument design, (de-)convolution, autocorrelation, cross-spectra, and filter theory: homomorphic filters, cepstral analysis. Exemplary data will cover geotechnical engineering, forensic, exploration, glacial, submarine and planetary seismology.
Offered: Fall
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EESC 433-1 Marine Ecosys&Carbn Cyc Mod Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
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TR 1230 1345 Goergen Hall Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: EESC 233-1 (P), EESC 433-1
Instructors: Thomas Weber
Description: Over the last few decades, numerical biogeochemical models have provided new insights into the marine carbon cycle, its contribution to past climate change, and its potential responses to future climate warming. In this practical class, students will build simple biogeochemical models-ranging from 'box' models of marine microbial ecosystems to three-dimensional nutrient cycling models-and design experiments to address climate change hypotheses. They will also be taught to analyze output from state-of-the-art climate models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Students will not only learn invaluable programming skills, but also gain a deeper intuition of the ocean carbon cycling and its role in the global climate system.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 455-1 Planetary Sci-Geo Evo&Planet Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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MWF 900 950 Hutchison Hall Room 138 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
0
Co-Located: EESC 255-1 (P), EESC 255W-1, EESC 455-1
Instructors: Julia Masny
Description:

This course will focus on geologic and geophysical studies of planets (interiors and surfaces), and the conditions that led to the origin of life. We will start with initial conditions, defined here as the formation of Earth and the Moon-forming event, and trace development of the planet from cooling of the magma ocean onwards. We next consider how our planetary neighbors (Venus and Mars) evolved, as well as key satellites in the solar system that may harbor life, or provide insight into early conditions on Earth.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 490-01 Supervised College Teaching Spring 2023 1.0 Open
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1 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Julia Masny
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 490-02 Supervised College Teaching Spring 2023 1.0 Open
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0 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Chiara Borrelli
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 490-03 Supervised College Teaching Spring 2023 1.0 Open
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Instructors: Rory Cottrell
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 490-04 Supervised College Teaching Spring 2023 1.0 Open
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1 		Capacity     
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Instructors: Erin Black
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 490-05 Supervised College Teaching Spring 2023 1.0 Open
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Instructors: Rachel Glade
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 490-06 Supervised College Teaching Spring 2023 1.0 Open
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0 		Capacity     
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Instructors: Thomas Weber
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 490-07 Supervised College Teaching Spring 2023 1.0 Open
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0 		Capacity     
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Instructors: Vas Petrenko
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 493-1 Master's Essay Spring 2023 5.0 Open
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Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: John Tarduno
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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EESC 499-1 Research Frontiers in Geo Sc Spring 2023 1.0 Open
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14 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: John Kessler
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Environmental Humanities
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EHUM 103-1 Moral Problems Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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TR 940 1055 Meliora Room 221 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
85 		Capacity     
86
Co-Located: EHUM 103-1, PHIL 103-1 (P), SUST 114-1
Instructors: William FitzPatrick
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: An introduction to moral philosophy as applied to current topics. Some questions to be explored: What sorts of socioeconomic principles are morally justifiable? Does the history of racial injustice in the U.S. create a moral demand for reparations, and if so, what is the best argument for this? What is the relation, if any, between morality and religion? Do animals have moral rights? How should we understand the meaning and value of human life and death? Can abortion sometimes be justified, and if so, how? Is it okay to destroy embryos for stem cell research? Is active euthanasia ever permissible? Is capital punishment justifiable in principle? In practice? Is torture morally permissible in the fight against terrorism? How far does our moral duty to aid distant strangers extend? We will also explore related general questions: Is it always possible for a good enough end to justify bad means? Are there objective facts about right or wrong, or is morality ultimately relative to cultures or times? Are there situations in which every available action is wrong? Can we be morally assessed even for some things that are largely a matter of luck?
Offered: Fall Spring
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EHUM 205-1 Theories & Debates: Culture vs. Ontology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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MW 1650 1805 Lattimore Room 441 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: ANTH 205-1 (P), EHUM 205-1
Instructors: Thomas Gibson
Description: A survey of anthropological and philosophical debates over how to explain the apparently irrational beliefs of other people in terms of their different cultural perceptions of the same natural world, or in terms of their different experiences of ontologically different worlds.

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Tues/Thurs 2-3:15 (instructor still Gibson). CL = ANTH 205-1 and EHUM 205-1 08/11/2021 DLM
Offered: Spring
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EHUM 232-1 Indigenous People's Movement Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Bausch & Lomb Room 269 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ANTH 232-1 (P), EHUM 232-1
Instructors: Thomas Gibson
Description: This course explores the legal, political, and philosophical dimensions of the concept of indigenous people; how it differs from overlapping concepts such as peasantry, race, ethnicity, language, culture, and religion; how its definition varies according to the history of colonialism in different parts of the world; and why this movement gained momentum after the end of the Cold War.
Offered: Fall Spring
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EHUM 233-1 Climate Interventions: Performing Arts & New Media' Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Rettner Hall Room 307 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
TR 1230 1345 Todd Union Room 107 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: DANC 233-1 (P), DMST 230-1, EHUM 233-1, SUST 220-1
Instructors: Rose Beauchamp; Stephanie Ashenfelder
Description: This humanities course based in the arts combines the study of performing, visual arts and new media with history and theory to convey a breadth of stories about the human experience of climate change. In this interdisciplinary, collaborative course, students will be introduced to the multi-faceted use of the arts in designing for and expressing a vision for a sustainable future. Working with community partners, our research and story collection in the Adirondack park will be used to inspire projects in the course.  Collaboration, design thinking, and the iterative design process will be used to produce performances and art work that respond to the stories of the changing climate in the Adirondack park. It will move through multiple units of theoretical study as students simultaneously work on their creative projects. The course will include an optional trip to the Adirondack Park to engage with our community partners.
Offered: Spring
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EHUM 239-2 Int'l Environmental Law Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
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TR 1105 1220 Harkness Room 115 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
22 		Capacity     
22
Co-Located: EHUM 239-2, INTR 239-2 (P), PSCI 239-2, SUST 239-2
Instructors: Milena Novy-Marx
Description: An examination of international environmental law and policy with a special focus on efforts to address climate change, including the Paris Agreement under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. This course serves as a companion to PSC 246, but PSC 246 is not a prerequisite. The goal of this course is to provide a foundational understanding of this rapidly developing, controversial field. Topics include consideration of the scientific, political, and economic drivers of international environmental law; the variety of tools (e.g., treaties, agreements, soft law,? voluntary incentive programs and market based approaches); and examples of how some international environmental issues have been addressed to date, including efforts to date on climate change. This course will be taught through lectures, discussion, several concise papers, and a group project.
Offered: Spring
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EHUM 243-1 Energy and Power Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Meliora Room 218 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: AAAS 221-1, ANTH 243-1 (P), EHUM 243-1, GSWS 236-1
Instructors: Kristin Doughty
Description: Does it matter where our power comes from? Why or how and to whom? This course uses anthropological case studies of different kinds of energy sources (fossil fuels, nuclear, water, solar, wind) and different kinds of electrification (centralized grids versus micro-grids) around the world to think about the relationship between energy, environments, power, and culture with a specific focus on intersectional gender and sexuality. How do energy practices and cultural norms of racialized gender shape each other in various places around the world, and to what effects? What might empirical attention to how people talk about and use energy help us to understand about the energy transitions and climate crises of the 21st century?
Offered: Fall Spring
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EHUM 255-1 Advanced Video: Mind Society Environment Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1640 Sage Arts Center Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: DMST 221-1, EHUM 255-1, FMST 257-1, SART 262A-1 (P), SART 262B-1, SART 262C-1
Instructors: Cary Adams
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: "It’s not climate change—it’s everything change," novelist Margaret Atwood has said. This course uses video and moving image to examine the deep intertwined and intersectional roots of the ecological crisis, from viral pandemics and racial justice to the disruption of our climate and all the other apocalyptic scenarios we currently find ourselves in. To guide our development of eco-cinematic consciousness, we will study the works of Kenyan activist Mangari Maathai, Native American (Chickasaw) writer Linda Hogan, and French philosopher Félix Guattari's foundational text, The Three Ecologies, to understand how ecologies of mind, media, and environment are interrelated and to complicate our understandings of "nature." Student Projects will involve installation, single-channel, sound, and networked-based approaches. Works will be examined within a critical environmental arts framework through readings, critiques, viewings and discussions. Permission of instructor. $75 studio fee. 
Offered: Fall Spring
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EHUM 346-1 Arctic Vision Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Morey Room 524 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AHST 346-1 (P), AHST 546-1, EHUM 346-1
Instructors: Christopher Heuer
Description: When Spanish and Portuguese explorers stumbled upon a sunny "America" that was new to them, they encountered balmy wonders – armadillos, cities, and gold. By contrast, when the English crashed into their own unseen continent a century later, they landed in the arctic, and found, to some extent, nothing. Icy, unpopulated, commodity- poor, visually and temporally “abstract,” the Far North - a different kind of terra incognita for the early modern imagination than the sun-drenched Indies, offered no clear stuff to be seen or exploited. With this, this seminar contends, the Arctic quietly yet powerfully challenged older narratives of world- and picture-making. Neither a continent, nor an ocean, nor a meteorological circumstance, the Arctic forced explorers, writers, and early artists from England, the Netherlands, and Germany to grapple with a different kind of “ecology.” Here, there were virtually no exotic animals, teeming forests, or enchanting civilizations to study, exploit, or exterminate - yet. In the frigid North, that is, the idea of description as a kind of accumulative endeavor of “representation” - of exoticism as synonymous with abundance - was thrown into question; the North was unsettling not because of dazzling difference, but because of monotonous sameness. Rather than an Eden, to Renaissance travelers the arctic was something like the moon.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering English
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ENGL 100-1 Great Books: A Brief History of Western Literature Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Morey Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Ezra Tawil
Description: We will take a very bold and ambitious approach to the study of literature, surveying a group of landmark literary works starting in Greek, Hebrew, and Latin antiquity, and concluding in the early twentieth century. We often associate that kind of study with the notion of “great books.” I won’t dispute that will read some of those this semester. But what really unites these works is that they understood themselves to be contributing to a cultural tradition in which each work builds on prior ones to achieve something new. The important point is not that these books count as Western masterpieces, but that they played a role in the invention and diffusion of that very idea. We will try to approach this set of literary works as their authors and first readers did: not as a disconnected series of individual creations but as a cultural whole greater than the sum of its parts—a living literary history which helped to produce the idea of a “western” culture or of the more particular national cultures that made it up.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 114-1 British Literature II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Harkness Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
27 		Capacity     
35
Instructors: Matt Bayne
Description: This course introduces students to some of the most significant literature from the Romantic, Victorian, and Modern literary periods. Beginning with the outbreak of the French Revolution and ending with World War I, the years covered by this course represent a time of dramatic political, economic, and cultural change. The nineteenth century witnessed the rise of industrialism, rapid imperialist expansion, religious crisis, increasing democracy, and shifts in gender and class identity. In exploring this tumultuous time period, the course will focus on an array of novelists, poets, and essayists who will serve as touchstones for the key political, intellectual, and aesthetic problems of their times (e.g. Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Brontë, Browning, Ruskin, Yeats, and Woolf). Students will not only gain a greater appreciation for individual authors, but they will also be able to situate them within a larger framework of ideas and historical currents. No prerequisites. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 116-1 Introduction to African American Literature Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Bausch & Lomb Room 315 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: AAAS 156-1, ENGL 116-1 (P), GSWS 155-1
Instructors: Lamia Alafaireet
Description: This course surveys African American literature of various genres—fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography—from the late-nineteenth century to the present. As a class, we will work together to identify persistent themes in African American literature and investigate continuities and evolutions in the ways African American writers have approached those themes across time, space, and literary movements. Along the way, students can expect to learn how to analyze literary texts in terms of both form and content.

While this course is grounded in literature, students will have regular opportunities to place course texts in interdisciplinary contexts, drawing connections to Black Lives Matter, climate justice, critical race theory, etc. Featured authors may include Frederick Douglass, Angelina Weld Grimké, James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, Toni Morrison, and Ross Gay.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 117-1 Intro to the Art of Film Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
29 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: AHST 136-1, ENGL 117-1 (P), FMST 132-1
Instructors: Jason Middleton
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The primary visual, aural, and narrative structures and conventions by which motion pictures create and comment upon significant human experience.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 118-1 Intro to Media Studies Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Meliora Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
64 		Capacity     
64
Co-Located: AHST 102-1 (P), ENGL 118-1, FMST 131-1
Instructors: Joel Burges
Description: This course introduces students to the theory and practice of media studies. We will look at a range of both media and historical tendencies related to the media, including manuscript culture, print, and the rise of the newspaper, novel, and modern nation-state; photography, film, television and their respective differences as visual mediums; important shifts in attitudes towards painting; the place of sound in the media of modernity; and the computerization of culture brought about by the computer, social networks, video games, and cell phones. In looking at these, we will consider both the approaches that key scholars in the field of media studies use, and the concepts that are central to the field itself (media/medium; medium-specificity; remediation; the culture industry; reification and utopia; cultural politics). By the end of the class, students will have developed a toolkit for understanding, analyzing, and judging the media that shape their lives in late modernity.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 121-1 Creative Writing Fiction Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Goergen Hall Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: David Hansen
Description: This class is a writing workshop, where students share their own fiction and participate in group critique. We will read and discuss stories from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries by writers of many backgrounds and dispositions, including James Joyce, Isak Dinesen, Edward P. Jones, Ha Jin, Joy Williams, W. G. Sebald, Gabriel García Márquez, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Chinua Achebe, and Franz Kafka. Students will have the chance to experiment with different styles and structures as they learn about literary invention. We'll consider techniques for shaping fictional characters, the management of point of view, the possibilities of narrative design, the role of setting and description, and the process of revision. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 121-2 Intro Creative Writing: Fiction Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1400 1640 Rush Rhees Library Room 226 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: David Hansen
Description: This class is a writing workshop, where students share their own fiction and participate in group critique. We will read and discuss stories from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries by writers of many backgrounds and dispositions, including James Joyce, Isak Dinesen, Edward P. Jones, Ha Jin, Joy Williams, W. G. Sebald, Gabriel García Márquez, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Chinua Achebe, and Franz Kafka. Students will have the chance to experiment with different styles and structures as they learn about literary invention. We'll consider techniques for shaping fictional characters, the management of point of view, the possibilities of narrative design, the role of setting and description, and the process of revision.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 122-1 Creative Writing: Poetry Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1650 1930 Dewey Room 4162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Christian Wessels
Description: An introductory course in the art of writing poetry. In addition to reading and writing poems, students will learn about various essential elements of craft such as image, metaphor, line, syntax, rhyme, and meter. The course will be conducted in a workshop format.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 124-1 Intro to Lighting For Stage Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Todd Union Room 112 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Katherine Hamilton
Description: This course introduces students to the mechanics, materials, and aesthetics of lighting for the theatre.  Students gain a thorough understanding of lighting equipment, procedures, safety, and how these fascinating elements contribute to creating theatrical storytelling.  Students work actively with these technologies on productions, getting valuable practical experience. There is a required lab component that will be scheduled with the instructor.
Offered: Fall Spring
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ENGL 126-1 Production Experience Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Katherine Hamilton
Description: Want to get your feet wet or hands dirty doing some exciting behind-the-scenes work on Theatre Program productions? A perfect hands-on way to explore the excitement, camaraderie, creativity, and skills needed for backstage work—in lighting, sound, costumes, scenery, or stage management—is to get involved in ENGL 126 Production Experience, a 1-credit, half semester course where you get to work on actual theatre productions in the brand-new Sloan Performing Arts Center through lab participation, joining run crews, or other practical ways. You’ll learn valuable skills while contributing to the excellence in production that the International Theatre Program is known for. You’ll play a real role in making theatre happen! No prior experience needed." 
Offered: Fall Spring
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ENGL 132-1 Feature Writing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1815 2055 Morey Room 502 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
28 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Mark Liu
Description: This class is all about making your nonfiction writing more creative, lively and interesting. We’ll read and analyze magazine, newspaper and online stories that use scenes and details to tell compelling stories about people and their lives. We’ll explore different techniques of nonfiction writing, with an emphasis on voice and how good writing comes from great interviewing. And we’ll do a lot of writing as a way of practicing what we study. Applicable English Cluster: Media, Culture, and Communication
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 133-1 Editing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1650 1930 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Elissa Orlando
Description: Study of print, digital and audio/visual editing with emphasis on news decision-making; copy editing, ethics and First Amendment issues such as libel. Applicable English Cluster: Media, Culture, and Communication [H1ENG016]
Offered: Fall Spring
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ENGL 134-2 Public Speaking Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lechase Room 141 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Curtis Smith
Description: Basic public speaking is the focus. Emphasis is placed on researching speeches, using appropriate language and delivery, and listening critically to oral presentations. ENG 134 contains two quizzes, a final exam, and four speeches to be given by the student. The speeches include a tribute, persuasive, explanatory, and problem-solving address. Material also features video and inaugural addresses of past U.S. presidents. The course utilizes instructor Curt Smith’s experience as a former White House presidential speechwriter and as a Smithsonian Institution series host. Applicable English Cluster: Media, Culture, and Communication [H1ENG016]
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 135-1 Intro to Debate Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Morey Room 502 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Frederick Fletcher
Description: The purpose of this course is to give students an appreciation for and knowledge of critical thinking and reasoned decision-making through argumentation. Students will research both sides of a topic, write argument briefs, and participate in formal and informal debates. Students will also be exposed to the major paradigms used in judging debates. Applicable English Cluster: Media, Culture, and Communication [H1ENG016]
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 136-1 Principles & Practices of Copyediting Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Goergen Hall Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: ENGL 136-1, WRTG 252-1 (P)
Instructors: Dustin Hannum
Description: While the term “copyediting” may be associated with journalism or literary fiction, in fact it is a vital component of the publication of almost any textual materials—from scholarly and popular publishing in arts and sciences to corporate and technical communications. So what do copy editors do? Is copyediting simply about enforcing rules of correctness? When is it okay to break those rules, or to allow others to do so, and what guides such decisions? How do copy editors understand and negotiate the relationships and interests of readers, writers, and the publications they work for? How has the information age changed the way copy editors think about and approach textual editing? In this class we will address both the principles and practices of copyediting. Students will learn the principles that guide copy editors, and then put these principles into use in a workshop setting, practicing copyediting in a variety of contexts, including digital communications.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement.

Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 154-1 Intro to Design for Stage Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1025 1305 Todd Union Room 112 01/11/2023 03/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
8
Instructors: Seth Reiser
Description: 1st seven Mondays of S23. Space and how it is conceived and explored is fundamental to the telling of stories on stage and elsewhere. This introductory course aims at giving students skills to create, translate and communicate a visual design/environment for performance. The class will focus on design fundamentals, materials, research and visual storytelling through class discussion, script analysis and practical work. Students will read a play, devise a concept for that play, research possible environments, and begin to produce drawings and other visual ideas for their design. Student's work will be presented and discussed in each class.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 165-1 Acting Comedy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Todd Union Room 107 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Patricia Browne
Description:
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself with a smile." (J.B. Priestly)  Actors have often assumed the guise of surrogate for society's concerns; by creating physically and vocally outsized characters in sometimes outrageous situations they say and do the things we cannot.  In this class we will embrace the physical and vocal challenges that comedy presents us with as actors by exploring a range of comedy styles including the use of masks in Commedia dell'arte, the verbal sparring of Comedy of Manners, the existential comedy of the Absurdists, the American tradition of improvisational comedy, and story telling through stand-up comedy.  
Some previous acting classes and/or improvisational experience preferred, but not required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 170-1 Technical Theatre Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Sloan Performing Arts Center Room B023 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Charles Lawlor
Description: The creation of a contemporary theatrical production uses skills and talents across a wide range of disciplines: from carpentry to rigging, from painting to computer drafting, from electrical to audiovisual engineering for the stage. This introductory course will explore the theories, methods, and safe practice of set construction (including using power tools), rigging, stage lighting, drafting, sound, and scene painting. Students will work on actual productions staged by the Theatre Program during required labs that will be scheduled with the instructor.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 172-1 Intro to Sound for the Stage Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Todd Union Room 112 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Daniel Spitaliere
Description: Ever wonder and admire how sound designers create awesome aural environments in live performance? This course investigates the tools, tricks, skills, and equipment of realizing sound design for the theater. You’ll learn how Sound Designers shape sound and music, and collaborate with other artists to achieve a specific creative vision. You’ll see and experience how sound systems are put together, getting hands-on time with different equipment and learning just what each piece does. We will build on the fundamentals of sound systems that can start as small as your computer and go as large as filling a 1,000 seat theater or larger. As you learn these trades and skills, you’ll then apply them in the Theatre Program's productions, working with peers and industry professionals to put on a full scale production. Whatever your experience level, you are welcome here. All you need is a passion for hearing the world around you, and the desire to bring your own creative world to life on whatever stage you find. There is a required lab component that will be scheduled with the instructor.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 174-1 Acting Techniques Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Todd Union Room 107 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Esther Winter
Description: This course serves as an introduction to, and exploration of the acting process for the stage, developing the fundamental skills students need to approach a text from a performers standpoint and to create character. The course takes as its basic premise that the actors instrument is the selfwith all of the physical, psychological, intellectual, social, moral and spiritual implications of that term. Students will be encouraged in both the expression and the expansion of the self and of the imagination. The class will also help the student develop an overall appreciation for the role of the theatre in todays society. Fall class: in conjunction with a weekly scheduled lab.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 177-1 The Actor's Voice Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1025 1305 Todd Union Room 107 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
13
Instructors: Sara Penner
Description: Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.?- Maya Angelou. In this course students will gain an understanding and greater command of their unique and powerful voice. We will explore the teachings of Kristin Linklater, Alexander Technique, Cecily Barry and many others to create full, free and forward sound that will serve the actor from the audition to the stage, the interview to the boardroom. Students will develop relaxation and awareness skills, learn to connect to a variety of texts in a meaningful and creative way and the ability to support and project, increase their vocal range, versatility, and confidence. Actors will learn to transform their voice into the voice of the character with the technique that allows them to meet the demands of doing it eight shows a week!
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 181-1 The Spoken Revolution: Spoken Word, Hip Hop, and Urban Theatre Today Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1650 1930 Todd Union Room 107 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Reenalda Golden
Description: Living through possibly the most vocally assertive moment in our world’s most recent history, we find ourselves poised for unprecedented change. How is our newly found articulation being employed for the greatest good? Explore the voices resonating through the current performance ecosystem that includes hip hop, spoken word, slam poetry and more while developing your own to lend to the spoken revolution. For all levels of theatre experience. Let’s make some noise! (Especially complimentary to ENGL182 Staging Revolution: Creating Theatre for Social Change. Not a prerequisite.)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 201-1 Old English Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Frederick Douglass Room 302 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 201-1 (P), ENGL 401-1, HIST 230-1, LING 207-1, LING 407-1
Instructors: Steven Rozenski
Description: At the end of the 5th century, after Roman occupation of Britain had ended, invaders from coastal Germany and the Netherlands settled in England and displaced the  Celtic-speaking population. The language these tribes spoke and wrote gives us the oldest witnesses of perhaps the most influential and widely-spoken language in the world today: English. In this class, we will learn to read the earliest records of English (c. 700-1100) by studying the grammar, vocabulary, and poetics of the period. We will explore the variety of surviving Old English texts - elegies, heroic epic, riddles, religious verse, Latin philosophy (translated in prose and verse), Biblical translation, sermons, charms, maxims, and more - as well as the history of book production during the period. By the end of the term, your new facility in Old English will enable you to read, understand, and translate some of the most beautiful poems ever written. No prerequisites for the course; as pre-1800 as you can get. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 204-1 Chaucer Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Bausch & Lomb Room 315 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 204-1 (P), ENGL 404-1
Instructors: Gregory Heyworth
Description: The principal works of Chaucer, in their historical and intellectual context. Readings in Middle English.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 206-1 Magic Language Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Lattimore Room 413 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 206-1 (P), ENGL 406-1
Instructors: Sarah Higley
Description: The properties of letters and numbers have been associated with the occult from ancient times on. This course will explore the creative development of this concept from Greek and Hebrew thought in medieval and early modern traditions where language served to hide, protect, conjure, and transform: the letters of the Paternoster that defeat the devil, Odin’s Mead of Poetry, Taliesin’s aretalogies, Germanic runes, riddles, charms, loricae, spells, ciphers (the indecipherable Voynich Manuscript, the banned Steganography by Trithemius of Sponheim), magic and foreign alphabets, deific languages (the Irish “Evernew Tongue”), glossolalia, demonic languages, invented languages (Hildegard of Bingen’s Lingua Ignota), John Dee’s “language of the angels,” Enochian,” adopted by Aleister Crowley for his “Order of the Golden Dawn.” I want to discover what properties in language do more than just signify. Exercises, creative projects, and a final research paper.  
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 207-1 Shakespeare and Modernity Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Morey Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
35
Instructors: Kenneth Gross
Description: In this class, we’ll be reading a series of Shakespeare’s plays, and alongside those plays works of modern drama and poetry that rewrite and transform them—metamorphosing their plots, characters, themes, and language.  The course is about the afterlife of Shakespeare in modern literature, and also about Shakespeare’s own modernity. The paired texts will include Hamlet and Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, King Lear and Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, The Tempest and W. H. Auden’s The Sea and the Mirror, along with Aime Césaire’s post-colonial drama A Tempest.  We’ll also be reading T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, which is an an echo chamber for a whole array of Shakespeare plays, and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway.  Counts for both pre- and post-1800 requirement in the English major. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 208-1 Renaissance Drama Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Hylan Building Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 208-1 (P), ENGL 408-1
Instructors: Rosemary Kegl
Description: This course focuses on drama written by Shakespeare's contemporaries.  Classes center around careful analysis of individual plays.  We discuss, among other topics, the plays' tragic and comic inflections, depictions of psychological interiority, meditations on love and desire, staging of death, use of props, fascination with sensational and often violent events, and insistent references to contemporary performance practices.  We also become familiar with a range of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century theatrical spaces—their geographical locations and physical properties, the composition of their audiences, the training and performance practices of their actors, and the aesthetic, social, and political contexts of their productions. We consider plays written by Beaumont and Fletcher, Dekker, Ford, Jonson, Kyd, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster and, when possible, view scenes from recent staged productions. 

Satisfies the pre-1800 literature, the dramatic literature, the literature, and the 200-level literature requirements for various English major and minor tracks. Satisfies a requirement in the Humanities/English cluster, Plays, Playwrights, and Theater.  Appropriate for all students, from those in their first semester at the university to senior English majors. No restrictions -- all students welcome. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 211-1 Milton Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Lattimore Room 413 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 211-1 (P), ENGL 411-1
Instructors: William Miller
Description: This course will examine the literary career of one of the most accomplished, intriguing, and influential poets of the English language, John Milton. Milton thrived during a time when many of the most urgent conversations we are still having about democracy, empire, gender, race, individuality, religion, technology, work, and nature were first formulated. Keeping this context in mind, students will read Milton’s major lyric, epic, and dramatic poetry, focusing especially on Paradise Lost, his epic retelling of the primal rebellion of Satan against God, as well as a selection of his prose writings, including his influential attacks on state censorship and his still-radical defenses of revolutionary action. We will also examine Milton’s legacy, especially his profound importance for later writers like Phillis Wheatley, William Blake, and Mary Shelley. This course fulfills the Pre-1800 requirement for English majors.
Offered: Fall Spring
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ENGL 225-1 American Renaissance Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Morey Room 303 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: AAAS 256-1, ENGL 225-1 (P), ENGL 425-1, HIST 268A-1
Instructors: John Michael
Description: We will investigate the peculiar quality of romanticism and the particular achievements of romantic writers in the United States during the period before the Civil War. Three capacious topics will organize discussions: nature and art, society and history, and individuals and communities. As part of each of these topics, we will also consider the pressures and controversies around slavery, race, and gender that were dividing the States in the decades before the Civil War.  We will read works by Cooper, Childs, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Melville, Poe, Douglass, Jacobs, Hawthorne, Stowe, Whitman, Lincoln, Dickinson, and others. Of particular interest throughout the term will be the hopes and anxieties, allegiances and resistances, aesthetic triumphs and political frustrations that characters American romantic artists and have made the imagination a crucial part of the nation's life and an indispensable resource for its people even at moments when fundamental conflicts threatened to end the nation altogether.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 232-2 Poe and Hoffman Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lattimore Room 431 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CLTR 242A-1 (P), CLTR 442A-1, ENGL 232-2, GRMN 230-1, GRMN 430-1
Instructors: Susan Gustafson
Description: This course explores the beginnings of the horror and detective genres in the 19th century. Particular attention is devoted to the narrative structure, tropes, and psychological content of the strange tales by Poe and Hoffmann. Theories of horror are also addressed to include discussions by lessing, Todorov, Huet, and Kristeva. NOTE: THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 238-2 Making Modernism New Again Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Lechase Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 238-2 (P), ENGL 438-1
Instructors: Bette London
Description: “Make it New” has generally been accepted as modernism’s battle cry, and 1922 has often been seen as the year modernism changed the world with the publication of key modernist masterpieces. But a century on, the novelty of its classics invites reinvestigation. We will explore how contemporary writers and filmmakers have recast and transformed iconic texts by writers like Conrad, Forster, Joyce, and Woolf for new times and new audiences, sometimes literally taking them apart and re-piecing them together. What happens when a novel is transposed to a new medium, genre, or point of view? What do the texts look like in transnational and multicultural settings? What happens when Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is refigured as a Vietnam era film or a graphic novel? What if Mrs. Dalloway is reduced to a five minute YouTube video? Looking at multiple versions of a few key texts, we will apply theories of adaptation and media studies, including ideas of remediation and remixing. We will also look at how digital technologies have produced new modernist artifacts, allowing us to explore multiple versions of a single text. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 241-1 Lyric Poetry Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Morey Room 525 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Kenneth Gross
Description: We will be looking at many different sorts of poem in this class: love poems, nature poems, mourning poems, memory poems, dream poems, poems about childhood, poems of madness and crisis, nonsense poems, hymns, riddles, and ballads. Lyric poetry speaks out of passion and playfulness, out of wonder and doubt. It asks us to credit forgotten or neglected parts of our experience, our intuitive selves. A poem is a “small (or large) machine made out of words,” the poet William Carlos William wrote. Such machines always play strange games with language, opening up and transforming our ordinary speech, teaching us to listen to it better, finding words starker or more beautiful, or more ambiguous, than we usually recognize.  Poetry also channels the energy of silence, the claims of what’s unsaid, or speaks for things that cannot speak.  Readings will include a great range older and more contemporary poets. During the last 3 weeks we’ll concentrate on the work of a single poet, probably Emily Dickinson or Elizabeth Bishop. Fulfills the post-1800 requirement for English majors. Not open to Freshmen without instructor permission.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 242-2 Ideas of America Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Lechase Room 121 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AAAS 211-1, AMST 200-1 (P), ENGL 242-2, ENGL 429-1, HIST 264-1
Instructors: John Michael
Description: What is America? A country? A continent? A political ideal? A culture? This course traces the development of ideas about America, from its historical beginnings to our own time, from European fantasies about the New World and its possibilities to the experiences of settlers and citizens facing its realities. We will explore the competing and even contending narratives of America in a wide variety of cultural documents, from orations, sermons and political tracts to novels, poems, photographs, and films. The course is open to all interested students and required for all American Studies majors.
Offered: Spring
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ENGL 245-1 Utopian and Dystopian Writing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
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MW 1400 1515 Bausch & Lomb Room 315 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 245-1 (P), ENGL 380-1, ENGL 445-1
Instructors: Rosemary Kegl
Description: In this course we discuss the literary qualities and social impulses that characterize utopian and dystopian writing. We focus on utopian and dystopian worlds imagined in British and American prose fiction from the sixteenth through the twenty-first century. We consider, among other topics, how this writing draws on Afrofuturism, journalism, naturalism, realism, romance, satire, science fiction, scientific and political treatises, and travel narratives. We read short stories and longer fiction (in entirety and in excerpt). Our authors include Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Francis Godwin, Margaret Cavendish, Jonathan Swift, Mary Shelley, Samuel Butler, Edward Bellamy, William Morris, William Dean Howells, E.M. Forster, W.E.B Du Bois, Ursula Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor, and Ken Liu. You have the option, in your essays, to focus on utopian or dystopian works beyond those on our syllabus. Satisfies both the pre-1800 and the post-1800 literature requirement in the English major. No restrictions -- all students welcome. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 245-2 Modern Novella Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Frederick Douglass Room 403 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
27 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 245-2 (P), ENGL 445-2
Instructors: Stephen Schottenfeld
Description: More broadly, a study of the gray zone between short story and novel, containing many ambiguous labels (long short story, novella, short novel). The course will interrogate various boundaries – When does a short story become a novella? When does a novella become a novel? – 
and locate answers not merely in word count, but in reader experience and expectation. Because of the (relative) brevity of these in-between texts, the course will cover much stylistic and geographic ground. Author list may include: Franz Kafka, Victor LaValle, Don DeLillo, Carson McCullers, Nathanael West, Gabriel García Márquez, Henry James, Danielle Evans, George Saunders, Garth Greenwell, Mieko Kawakami, Aleksandar Hemon, William Gass, and Cynthia Ozick. 
 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 247-1 When Cultures Make Contact: Science Fiction and Allegories of Social Conflict Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Bausch & Lomb Room 269 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 247-1 (P), ENGL 447-1
Instructors: Sarah Higley
Description: This course examines four science fiction writers—Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stanislaw Lem, and Michel Faber—who address the perilous issues of voyage into foreign terrain, calling upon post-colonial criticism to guide us. Clarke's novels Rendezvous with Rama and Childhood's End will be read in conjunction with Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed. We will read Solaris by Lem and see one or both films made of it. Faber’s Under the Skin interrogates our treatment of animals by making us prey to aliens and The Book of Strange New Things tells the daring story about a minister who has been asked by a non-human race to continue his missionary work on Oasis, with no concept that his idea of Christianity doesn’t square with theirs. We end with Ted Chiang’s story and its film adaptation, Arrival, which investigates cultural barriers created by language, body, and foreign ground—matters that drive all stories about the Otherworld, and the complex problems of misreading each other.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 248-1 Contemporary Women's Writing Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Lattimore Room 431 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: ENGL 248-1 (P), ENGL 448-1, GSWS 286-1
Instructors: Bette London
Description: In recent years, we have seen a virtual explosion of writing by women, with women’s novels constituting some of the most widely read and critically admired work being produced today. The global reach of both its authors and audiences has made contemporary women’s writing a truly international phenomenon. We will examine what makes this work especially innovative: its experimentation with new voices and narrative forms and its blurring of genre boundaries. We will look at the dialogue it has established with the past, where it often finds its inspiration, self-consciously appropriating earlier literary texts or rewriting history.  We will also consider what special challenges this work poses for its readers. Looking at works originating in a wide range of locations, this course, will explore the diverse shapes of contemporary women's imagination and attempt to account for the compelling interest of this new body of fiction.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 252-1 Theater in England Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ENGL 252-1 (P), ENGL 452-1
Instructors: Katherine Mannheimer
Description: This 4-credit intersession course will be conducted in London, UK, from December 26, 2022–January 7, 2023. Attending two plays per day with a seminar discussion each morning, students in this course are exposed to a full range of theatre experiences, from intimate theatre-in-the-round to monumental productions at the National Theatre, and from West End spectaculars to cutting-edge works mounted in post-industrial spaces. See the link on the English Department homepage to find the course's website, which describes the program in greater detail and contains syllabi from the past 25+ years. Need-based financial aid is available. The fee total is $2850 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 258-2 Film as Object Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Wegmans Room 1009 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
14
Co-Located: CLTR 230-1 (P), CLTR 430-1, ENGL 258-2, ENGL 458-1, FMST 243-1, JPNS 207-1
Instructors: Joanne Bernardi
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Moving images recorded on analog film defined the 20th century in an unprecedented way. This course considers the tangible object that is the source of the image onscreen, and the social, cultural, and historical value of a reel of film as an organic element with a finite life cycle. We focus on the analog photographic element and its origins (both theatrical and small gauge), the basics of photochemical film technology, and the state of film conservation and preservation worldwide. Guest lectures by staff of the Moving Image Department of George Eastman Museum provide a first-hand look at film preservation in action, allowing us to consider analog film as an ephemeral form of material culture: a multipurpose, visual record that is art, entertainment, evidentiary document, and historical artifact. Weekly film assignments. Class meets on River Campus and at George Eastman Museum (900 East Ave, no admission fee but students provide their own transportation). No audits, no pre-requisites. Enrollment limited by hands-on nature of course.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 262-1 Postwar Italian Directors: Fellini, Antonioni,Cavani Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 105 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: CLTR 212-1 (P), ENGL 262-1, ENGL 462-1, FMST 239-1, ITAL 243-1
Instructors: Andrew Korn
Description: This course explores three of Italy’s most prominent post-WWII directors, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Liliana Cavani, who developed distinct cinemas and contributed radical representations to key cultural debates. Students will examine each filmmaker’s specific thematic and stylistic innovations, such as Fellini’s carnivalesque and dreamlike states, Antonioni’s use of space and color, and Cavani’s marginal figures and use of flashback. Students will also compare how their works address three of postwar Italy’s and the West’s most critical questions: modernization, the 1968 student protests and the legacy of Fascism. Films include: Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and Amarcord; Antonioni’s Red Desert and Zabriskie Point; and Cavani’s The Cannibals and The Night Porter. Assignments include: historical, biographical and critical readings, film screenings, short papers and a final essay. Readings will be in English and films will be shown with English subtitles.
Offered: Fall Spring
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ENGL 265-1 Documentary Film and Media Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Morey Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
32 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: ENGL 265-1 (P), ENGL 465-1, FMST 226-1
Instructors: Jason Middleton
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course examines major historical movements and styles in the documentary film tradition, and explores the spread of documentary across a range of media platforms. We will study the expository documentary, ethnographic film, the direct cinema and cinéma vérité movements, documentary’s intersections with avant-garde film, mock documentary and hoax films, personal and autobiographical film and video, animated documentary, and digital interactive documentary media.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 267-1 Intro to Literary Publishing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lechase Room 148 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: ENGL 267-1, LTST 396-1 (P), LTST 410-1
Instructors: Chad Post
Description: This course runs in combination with an internship at Open Letter Books and focuses on explaining the basics of the business of literary publishing: editing, marketing, promoting, fundraising, ebooks, the future of bookselling, etc. Literature in translation is emphasized in this class, and all the topics covered tie in with the various projects interns work on for Open Letter Books.
Offered: Fall Spring
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ENGL 268-1 Digital Imaging Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Rettner Hall Room 307 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: DMST 210-2 (P), DSCC 210-1, DSCC 410-1, ENGL 268-1, ENGL 468-1
Instructors: Gregory Heyworth
Description: This course introduces students to the methods involved in turning real objects into virtual ones using cutting edge digital imaging technology and image rendering techniques. Focusing on manuscripts, paintings, maps, and 3D artifacts, students will learn the basics of multispectral imaging, photogrammetry, and Reflectance Transformation Imaging, and spectral image processing using ENVI and Photoshop. These skills will be applied to data from the ongoing research of the Lazarus Project as well as to local cultural heritage collections.
Offered: Spring
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ENGL 270-1 Advanced Technical Theatre Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Sloan Performing Arts Center Room B023 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Katherine Hamilton
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Investigate technical theater beyond the realms of ENG 170/171 (Technical Theater). Focus on skilled and specialized work related to the scenic design and technical production of the semester's Theatre Program productions. Working in small seminars and in one-on-one tutorials, the instructor will assist students in learning more about their chosen technical area, including advanced scenic and technical problem-solving. There is a required lab component that will be scheduled with the instructor.
Offered: Fall Spring
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ENGL 271-1 Advanced Production: Sound Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Todd Union Room 112 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Daniel Spitaliere
Description: Building off of concepts introduced in ENG 171/172 (recommended, but not required), students will learn the skills necessary to build and operate theatrical sound systems. Students will receive hands-on opportunities with live sound equipment, learn proper signal flow, get experience running and troubleshooting systems, and experiment with both technical and creative design. There is a required lab component that will be scheduled with instructor.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 272-1 Advanced Acting Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1025 1305 Todd Union Room 107 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Sara Penner
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Advanced Acting aims to provide students who have substantial or significant performance experience an opportunity to explore, in depth, advanced acting techniques, while further developing interpretive and imaginative skills. The class aims to build creativity and the ability to inhabit a broad diversity of characters and performance styles.
Offered: Fall Spring
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ENGL 276-1 Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Rush Rhees Library Room 226 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: ENGL 276-1 (P), ENGL 376-1, ENGL 476-1
Instructors: Jennifer Grotz
Description: Poems, as William Carlos Williams once said, are machines made out of words, and in this advanced poetry workshop we will work on making the most gorgeous, gripping, and efficient machines possible. To that end, we will read both one another's poems and poems by established authors, in either case paying attention to the ways in which the authors harness aspects of their medium, the English language: syntax, diction, rhythm. The poems we write may take any shape, any form, but we will work towards understanding why a particular poem must take the shape it has; we will pay attention not so much to what the poems say as to how they say it. In addition, this course will explore and attend to process, which may include questions of inspiration, generation, and revision. and Requirements: weekly writing and reading assignments, revisions of assignments, devoted participation in class discussions.  Permission of instructor is required. Students are to submit 3-5 typed poems by email to the instructor.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 277-2 Screenwriting Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1400 1640 Lechase Room 182 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: ENGL 277-2 (P), FMST 260-1
Instructors: Stephen Schottenfeld
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: An introduction to the three-act film structure. Students will read and view numerous screenplays and films, and develop their own film treatment into a full-length script. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 279-1 Consent in Performance: “Me Too” Where Do We Go From Here? Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 940 1055 Todd Union Room 107 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: DANC 276-1, ENGL 279-1 (P), GSWS 274-1, OP 280-1
Instructors: Sara Penner
Description: “United States law says “Consent and agency over one’s body is a given in the work space.”  How, then, can the performance workspace acknowledge and honor our boundaries, while nurturing us to risk, grow, and create our truest, bravest work?   How can we as artists learn strategies to poetize the uncomfortable while honoring our boundaries?  In this course, we study the history and evolution of consent in performance, allowing students to learn about personal agency, self-advocacy, and how to foster and navigate healthy collaboration across disciplines. The class will give young artists the space to discover and articulate their boundaries through a variety of group exercises and opportunities for self-reflection.  Lectures will cover intimacy direction and rehearsal tools, discussions and guest lecturers on gender and feminist theory in relation to performance art, theatre, film and dance.  This course is a must for artistic collaborators from directors & choreographers, to actors, musicians, technicians, and performance artists!”
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 280-1 History of High School Debate in the US Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Frederick Douglass Room 308 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
6
Instructors: Frederick Fletcher
Description: This course is a "Community Engaged Learning" course that will connect students with high school teachers and students in the Rochester City School District as mentors and coaches once per week while the on-campus course covers the history of high school debate in the US and explores some best practices for high school debate programs and leagues. Given that the Rochester City Debate Initiative is still young, this is an exciting opportunity for students to be part of a program at its outset. The on-campus course will also feature guest speakers from the Rochester community and high school debate programs in other communities around the country. Students enrolled in this course would be expected to achieve a level of familiarity and competence with 1) the history of high school debate programs for marginalized communities in the United States; 2) relevant historical and theoretical perspectives that provide important commentary to evaluate the goals and efficacy of such programs; 3) current established city high school debate programs throughout the U.S. and their best practices. Students will be evaluated with some more traditional coursework assignments, such as journal reflections, short essays, and a research paper, but a significant part of their evaluation will occur throughout their experience volunteering in the program “on the ground.” Please address any inquiries to Brady Fletcher: brady.fletcher@rochester.edu.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 281-1 Advanced Feature Writing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Lechase Room 182 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Melissa Balmain
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: From planning to research to communication, this course nurtures skills crucial in almost any field. We’ll look at how successful feature writers bridge the gap between news and commentary, shedding light on people, places, and perplexing issues. And we'll put their methods into practice as you write your own articles. Among the feature types the course explores: profiles, trend pieces, investigations, science and travel stories, and color pieces. Among our topics: finding and developing ideas; digging for information; interviewing and quoting effectively and ethically; finding a suitable structure and tone; fact checking; revising and pruning; and getting published. Applicable English Cluster: Media, Culture, and Communication. **Email Instructor a paragraph or so about your experience in reporting and/or writing. Students in this class should have taken at least one introductory journalism course AND/OR have significant extracurricular/internship experience in nonfiction reporting, writing, or editing. (Students who have taken Humor Writing at UR are also eligible.)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 283-1 Longform Narratives: Rochester Stories Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1400 1640 Morey Room 502 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Albert Memmott
Description: Rochester is rich in stories, and throughout the course of the semester, students will look back at key moments, key issues, and key players in Rochester’s history. And students will also each build a longform story focusing on an event, a person, or a moment that shaped life in Rochester. For example, in previous semesters, one student looked at the impact of the bicycle on women’s liberation in Rochester, another examined how the garbage plate became an iconic Rochester food offering. Class discussions will also involve analyzing examples of nonfiction narratives. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 283-2 The future of community journalism Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Bausch & Lomb Room 270 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Smriti Jacob
Description: This course will examine the meaning of "community journalism" by serving as a satellite newsroom, reporting and writing stories for the Rochester Beacon, a local digital nonprofit news platform. The course will also study how the increasing number of "news deserts" nationwide  has contributed to a politically polarized climate. What are the effects of a news desert? How can government, business, and other institutions be held accountable as community papers vanish? How might nonprofit and digital-only news outlets fill some of the gaps left behind by traditional sources of local reporting? Questions please contact: smriti.jacob@rochesterbeacon.com
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 284-1 Orality, Language & Literacy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Morey Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: ENGL 284-1 (P), ENGL 484-1, GSWS 283-1
Instructors: David Bleich
Description: We consider issues raised in Walter Ong's '82 study, "Orality & Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word." His account related the growth of writing & print to the development of science & modern rational thought, exploring possible changes in collective consciousness as a result of the shift of media emphasis. We'll examine classical sources, including Plato's suspicion of the power of oral poetry, & consider levels of literacy achieved in ancient society; we'll look at European medieval traditions. Discussions on the roles language & literature played in the lives of non-literate people as contrasted with literate. Study of the modern & contemporary periods focuses on practices as conversation, becoming literate, collection of oral accounts & their uses, uses of ethnographic writing, & different approaches to speech, writing, & language in African American & white communities. Key aim of the course is to show the politics, mutual dependency, & reciprocity of oral/literate uses of language in literary/nonliterary.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 286-1 Presidential Rhetoric Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Lechase Room 181 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Curtis Smith
Description: Presidential Rhetoric, taught by former presidential speechwriter Curt Smith, helps students critically examine the public rhetoric and themes of the modern American presidency. ENG 286 devotes special attention to the office’s symbolic nature, focusing on how well twentieth-century presidents communicate via a variety of forms, including the press conference, political speech, inaugural address, and prime-time TV speech. Smith will draw on his experiences at the White House and at ESPN TV to link the world’s most powerful office and today’s dominant medium. Applicable English Cluster: Media, Culture, and Communication [H1ENG016]
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 287-2 Translation & World Literature Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Meliora Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: CLTR 284-1, CLTR 484-1, ENGL 287-2, LTST 206-2 (P), LTST 406-1
Instructors: Chad Post
Description: The focus of this course is to examine what makes a translation "successful" as a translation. By reading a series of recently translated works (some contemporary, some retranslations of modern classics), and by talking with translators, we will have the opportunity to discuss both specific and general issues that come up while translating a given text. Young translators will be exposed to a lot of practical advice throughout this class, helping to refine their approach to their own translations, and will expand their understanding of various practices and possibilities for the art and craft of literary translation.
Offered: Fall
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ENGL 288-1 Writing in a Digital World Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lechase Room 148 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: DMST 250-1, ENGL 288-1, WRTG 261-1 (P)
Instructors: Lisabeth Tinelli
Description: The purpose of writing in a digital world is to engage with a broader community around a topic of interest and contribute to public knowledge. In this course, students are invited to dig deeply into a question of interest, write for a public audience, and use the Internet as an archive of information waiting to be discovered, analyzed, and written about. Students can draw on pre-existing research interests from their majors or develop a line of inquiry stemming from class discussions, writing, and research. In order to gain experience writing to a range of readers, students will engage in a writing process informed by peer review, self-assessment, and revision. Shorter writing assignments will help students develop and refine ideas as they transform texts for different audiences. The final research project will be multimodal, published for a public audience, and should demonstrate your ability to think critically about a topic and effectively communicate that knowledge to a range of readers.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 289-1 Translation: Interpreting & Adapting Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Hylan Building Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: ENGL 289-1, LTST 263-1, WRTG 263-1 (P)
Instructors: Stella Wang
Description: This course takes up translation process as an object of study. How do translators work? What opportunities and constraints are present for freelance, specialist, or professional translators? To what extent do translators not only transmit but actively create knowledge and build community via their work of interpreting and adapting? We’ll explore a range of potentially high-stakes cases involving textual, audiovisual, and multimodal renditions of a source text. These may include translating an ad or museum label; subbing a TED Talk or performance; dubbing in anime or games; interpreting for business, medical, or other purposes. Along with course readings and short experimental translations, students will work with our paraprofessional consultants and community partners in SW Rochester to craft final projects that provide a meaningful extension of course learning to real-world issues (Counts toward the Citation in Community-Engaged Scholarship; see Authentically Urban, Virtually Global: Southwest Rochester).
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 293-1 Plays in Performance: The African Company Presents Richard III Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Katherine Hamilton
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: For actors, assistant directors and select student staff working on the current mainstage production.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 295-1 Plays in Performance: Metamorphoses Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Katherine Hamilton
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: For actors, assistant directors and select student staff working on the current mainstage production.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 297-1 Stage Management: S23 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1400 1640 Todd Union Room 202F 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Katherine Hamilton
Description: The stage manager is the critical organizational and management hub in the artistic process of theatrical production.  Stage Managers are skilled project managers, and the skills learned in stage management are applicable to almost any management situation.  Stage Management (fall/spring) students will get an in-depth introduction to and immersion in stage managing a theatrical production, as well as understanding the broader context of stage management within cultural, historical, theatrical and aesthetic histories/contexts.  The course covers all areas of management skills, safety procedures, technical knowledge, and paperwork.  Students will be expected to put in significant time in the lab portion of the course: serving as an assistant stage manager or production stage manager on one (or both) Theater Program productions in their registered semester.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 298-1 Performance Lab: The African Company Presents Richard III Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Ur Staff
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: A 1 credit pass/fail performance lab course for students accepted into ENG 292, 293, 294, 295 & 296 or for those involved as actors in mainstage Theatre Program productions.
Offered: Fall Spring
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ENGL 299-1 Performance Lab: Metamorphoses Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Sara Penner
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: A 1 credit pass/fail performance lab course for students accepted into ENG 292, 293, 294, 295 & 296 or for those involved as actors in mainstage Theatre Program productions.
Offered: Fall Spring
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ENGL 360-1 Special Projects: Theater Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Katherine Hamilton
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: In Special Projects: Theatre students work in a particular area or on a particular project of their choosing or devising. Developed with and overseen by a Theatre Program faculty member and functioning like an Independent Study, Special Projects: Theatre allows students the opportunity of specializing in or investigate theatre in a tailored, focused, and self-directed way.
Offered: Fall Spring
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ENGL 375-1 Seminar in Writing Fiction Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1640 Lechase Room 182 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: ENGL 375-1 (P), ENGL 475-1
Instructors: Joanna Scott
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Read short stories by contemporary writers along with fiction by the students in the workshop, and discuss ways writers can sharpen the conversation between text and reader. Also consider editing and reviewing techniques. Students expected to write and revise at least three original stories or three sections of a longer work of fiction.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 375-2 Seminar in Writing: Fiction Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1650 1930 Morey Room 303 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: ENGL 375-2 (P), ENGL 475-2
Instructors: Joanna Scott
Description: Read short stories by contemporary writers along with fiction by the students in the workshop, and discuss ways writers can sharpen the conversation between text and reader. Also consider editing and reviewing techniques. Students expected to write and revise at least three original stories or three sections of a longer work of fiction. Please contact Professor Joanna Scott, jscott15@ur.rochester.edu, for permission to enroll.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 376-1 Seminar in Writing Poetry Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Rush Rhees Library Room 226 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: ENGL 276-1 (P), ENGL 376-1, ENGL 476-1
Instructors: Jennifer Grotz
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Poems, as William Carlos Williams once said, are machines made out of words, and in this advanced poetry workshop we will work on making the most gorgeous, gripping, and efficient machines possible. To that end, we will read both one another's poems and poems by established authors, in either case paying attention to the ways in which the authors harness aspects of their medium, the English language: syntax, diction, rhythm. The poems we write may take any shape, any form, but we will work towards understanding why a particular poem must take the shape it has; we will pay attention not so much to what the poems say as to how they say it. In addition, this course will explore and attend to process, which may include questions of inspiration, generation, and revision. and Requirements: weekly writing and reading assignments, revisions of assignments, devoted participation in class discussions. Permission of instructor is required. Students are to submit 3-5 typed poems by email to the instructor.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 380-1 Utopian and Dystopian Writing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Bausch & Lomb Room 315 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 245-1 (P), ENGL 380-1, ENGL 445-1
Instructors: Rosemary Kegl
Description: In this course we discuss the literary qualities and social impulses that characterize utopian and dystopian writing. We focus on utopian and dystopian worlds imagined in British and American prose fiction from the sixteenth through the twenty-first century. We consider, among other topics, how this writing draws on Afrofuturism, journalism, naturalism, realism, romance, satire, science fiction, scientific and political treatises, and travel narratives. We read short stories and longer fiction (in entirety and in excerpt). Our authors include Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Francis Godwin, Margaret Cavendish, Jonathan Swift, Mary Shelley, Samuel Butler, Edward Bellamy, William Morris, William Dean Howells, E.M. Forster, W.E.B Du Bois, Ursula Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor, and Ken Liu. You have the option, in your essays, to focus on utopian or dystopian works beyond those on our syllabus. Satisfies both the pre-1800 and the post-1800 literature requirement in the English major. No restrictions -- all students welcome. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 380-3 Comedy in Film and Television Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Gavett Hall Room 312 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: DMST 213-1, DMST 213W-1, ENGL 380-3 (P), FMST 233-1
Instructors: Joel Burges
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: From rom coms, musical comedies, and sitcoms to tragicomedy, satire, and slapstick, many versions of comedy have made us laugh out loud or smile sardonically from the ancients to the moderns. While this history will have a place in our course, we will primarily investigate comedy in film and television of the 20th and 21st centuries. We will explore critical issues related to comedy, including the function and meaning of laughter and jokes; moments of comic relief; the relationship of comedy to community and crisis; love, sexuality, and romance; the role of the body and whether comedy is a "body genre"; how race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class get messily mediated by comedy; the difference of comedy from other modes such as tragedy, horror, and realism; and the varying tones comedy can have from dark to light, serious to fun, and comforting to disturbing. Preference will be given to English, Digital Media Studies, and Film & Media Studies majors fulfilling a requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 380-6 The Horror Film Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1650 1930 Morey Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: ENGL 380-6 (P), ENGL 482-1, FMST 232-1
Instructors: Jason Middleton
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course examines major critical issues surrounding the horror genre, through close study of Classical Hollywood, post-classical, and international horror films, and readings in critical theory. Issues to be explored include boundary transgression and bodily abjection in the construction of the horror monster; gender, pregnancy, and the monstrous-feminine; social Otherness (race, class, sexuality) as monstrosity; the figure of the serial killer and the shift from classic to modern horror; the grotesque and the blending of comedy and horror in the zombie film. As a research seminar, the course will involve the development of a substantial research project.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 380K-2 Comedy in Television: Lab Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1000 1500 Rettner Hall Room 201 01/27/2023 01/27/2023
F 1000 1500 Rettner Hall Room 201 02/03/2023 02/03/2023
F 1000 1500 Rettner Hall Room 201 02/10/2023 02/10/2023
F 1000 1500 Rettner Hall Room 201 02/17/2023 02/17/2023
F 1000 1500 Rettner Hall Room 201 02/24/2023 02/24/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Joel Burges
Description: Computer Lab for ENGL 380: Comedy in Television
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 392-4 Practicum Theatre (Advanced Stage Management) Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
1
Instructors: Katherine Hamilton
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 395-1 Independent Research Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Description: Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 398-1 Honors Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: John Michael
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Enrollment in ENG 398 is limited to students who have been accepted into the English Department Honors Program for 2022-2023, and who are currently taking ENGL 396, the Honors Seminar.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 399-1 Washington Semester Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Jeffrey Tucker
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 401-1 Old English Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Frederick Douglass Room 302 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 201-1 (P), ENGL 401-1, HIST 230-1, LING 207-1, LING 407-1
Instructors: Steven Rozenski
Description: At the end of the 5th century, after Roman occupation of Britain had ended, invaders from coastal Germany and the Netherlands settled in England and displaced the  Celtic-speaking population. The language these tribes spoke and wrote gives us the oldest witnesses of perhaps the most influential and widely-spoken language in the world today: English. In this class, we will learn to read the earliest records of English (c. 700-1100) by studying the grammar, vocabulary, and poetics of the period. We will explore the variety of surviving Old English texts - elegies, heroic epic, riddles, religious verse, Latin philosophy (translated in prose and verse), Biblical translation, sermons, charms, maxims, and more - as well as the history of book production during the period. By the end of the term, your new facility in Old English will enable you to read, understand, and translate some of the most beautiful poems ever written. No prerequisites for the course; as pre-1800 as you can get. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 404-1 Chaucer Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Bausch & Lomb Room 315 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 204-1 (P), ENGL 404-1
Instructors: Gregory Heyworth
Description: The principal works of Chaucer, in their historical and intellectual context. Readings in Middle English.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 406-1 Magic Language Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Lattimore Room 413 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 206-1 (P), ENGL 406-1
Instructors: Sarah Higley
Description: The properties of letters and numbers have been associated with the occult from ancient times on. This course will explore the creative development of this concept from Greek and Hebrew thought in medieval and early modern traditions where language served to hide, protect, conjure, and transform: the letters of the Paternoster that defeat the devil, Odin’s Mead of Poetry, Taliesin’s aretalogies, Germanic runes, riddles, charms, loricae, spells, ciphers (the indecipherable Voynich Manuscript, the banned Steganography by Trithemius of Sponheim), magic and foreign alphabets, deific languages (the Irish “Evernew Tongue”), glossolalia, demonic languages, invented languages (Hildegard of Bingen’s Lingua Ignota), John Dee’s “language of the angels,” Enochian,” adopted by Aleister Crowley for his “Order of the Golden Dawn.” I want to discover what properties in language do more than just signify. Exercises, creative projects, and a final research paper.  
Offered: Fall Spring
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ENGL 408-1 Renaissance Drama Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Hylan Building Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 208-1 (P), ENGL 408-1
Instructors: Rosemary Kegl
Description: This course focuses on drama written by Shakespeare's contemporaries.  Classes center around careful analysis of individual plays.  We discuss, among other topics, the plays' tragic and comic inflections, depictions of psychological interiority, meditations on love and desire, staging of death, use of props, fascination with sensational and often violent events, and insistent references to contemporary performance practices.  We also become familiar with a range of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century theatrical spaces—their geographical locations and physical properties, the composition of their audiences, the training and performance practices of their actors, and the aesthetic, social, and political contexts of their productions. We consider plays written by Beaumont and Fletcher, Dekker, Ford, Jonson, Kyd, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster and, when possible, view scenes from recent staged productions. 

Satisfies the pre-1800 literature, the dramatic literature, the literature, and the 200-level literature requirements for various English major and minor tracks. Satisfies a requirement in the Humanities/English cluster, Plays, Playwrights, and Theater.  Appropriate for all students, from those in their first semester at the university to senior English majors. No restrictions -- all students welcome. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 411-1 Milton Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Lattimore Room 413 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 211-1 (P), ENGL 411-1
Instructors: William Miller
Description: This course will examine the literary career of one of the most accomplished, intriguing, and influential poets of the English language, John Milton. Milton thrived during a time when many of the most urgent conversations we are still having about democracy, empire, gender, race, individuality, religion, technology, work, and nature were first formulated. Keeping this context in mind, students will read Milton’s major lyric, epic, and dramatic poetry, focusing especially on Paradise Lost, his epic retelling of the primal rebellion of Satan against God, as well as a selection of his prose writings, including his influential attacks on state censorship and his still-radical defenses of revolutionary action. We will also examine Milton’s legacy, especially his profound importance for later writers like Phillis Wheatley, William Blake, and Mary Shelley. This course fulfills the Pre-1800 requirement for English majors.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 425-1 American Renaissance Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Morey Room 303 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: AAAS 256-1, ENGL 225-1 (P), ENGL 425-1, HIST 268A-1
Instructors: John Michael
Description: We will investigate the peculiar quality of romanticism and the particular achievements of romantic writers in the United States during the period before the Civil War. Three capacious topics will organize discussions: nature and art, society and history, and individuals and communities. As part of each of these topics, we will also consider the pressures and controversies around slavery, race, and gender that were dividing the States in the decades before the Civil War. We will read works by Cooper, Childs, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Melville, Poe, Douglass, Jacobs, Hawthorne, Stowe, Whitman, Lincoln, Dickinson, and others. Of particular interest throughout the term will be the hopes and anxieties, allegiances and resistances, aesthetic triumphs and political frustrations that characters American romantic artists and have made the imagination a crucial part of the nation's life and an indispensable resource for its people even at moments when fundamental conflicts threatened to end the nation altogether.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 429-1 Ideas of America Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Lechase Room 121 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AAAS 211-1, AMST 200-1 (P), ENGL 242-2, ENGL 429-1, HIST 264-1
Instructors: John Michael
Description: What is America? A country? A continent? A political ideal? A culture? This course traces the development of ideas about America, from its historical beginnings to our own time, from European fantasies about the New World and its possibilities to the experiences of settlers and citizens facing its realities. We will explore the competing and even contending narratives of America in a wide variety of cultural documents, from orations, sermons and political tracts to novels, poems, photographs, and films. The course is open to all interested students and required for all American Studies majors.
Offered: Spring
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ENGL 438-1 Making Modernism New Again Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Lechase Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 238-2 (P), ENGL 438-1
Instructors: Bette London
Description: “Make it New” has generally been accepted as modernism’s battle cry, and 1922 has often been seen as the year modernism changed the world with the publication of key modernist masterpieces. But a century on, the novelty of its classics invites reinvestigation. We will explore how contemporary writers and filmmakers have recast and transformed iconic texts by writers like Conrad, Forster, Joyce, and Woolf for new times and new audiences, sometimes literally taking them apart and re-piecing them together. What happens when a novel is transposed to a new medium, genre, or point of view? What do the texts look like in transnational and multicultural settings? What happens when Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is refigured as a Vietnam era film or a graphic novel? What if Mrs. Dalloway is reduced to a five minute YouTube video? Looking at multiple versions of a few key texts, we will apply theories of adaptation and media studies, including ideas of remediation and remixing. We will also look at how digital technologies have produced new modernist artifacts, allowing us to explore multiple versions of a single text. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 445-1 Utopian and Dystopian Writing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Bausch & Lomb Room 315 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 245-1 (P), ENGL 380-1, ENGL 445-1
Instructors: Rosemary Kegl
Description: In this course we discuss the literary qualities and social impulses that characterize utopian and dystopian writing. We focus on utopian and dystopian worlds imagined in British and American prose fiction from the sixteenth through the twenty-first century. We consider, among other topics, how this writing draws on Afrofuturism, journalism, naturalism, realism, romance, satire, science fiction, scientific and political treatises, and travel narratives. We read short stories and longer fiction (in entirety and in excerpt). Our authors include Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Francis Godwin, Margaret Cavendish, Jonathan Swift, Mary Shelley, Samuel Butler, Edward Bellamy, William Morris, William Dean Howells, E.M. Forster, W.E.B Du Bois, Ursula Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor, and Ken Liu. You have the option, in your essays, to focus on utopian or dystopian works beyond those on our syllabus. 

Satisfies both the pre-1800 and the post-1800 literature requirement in the English major. No restrictions -- all students welcome. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 445-2 Modern Novella Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Frederick Douglass Room 403 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
27 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 245-2 (P), ENGL 445-2
Instructors: Stephen Schottenfeld
Description: More broadly, a study of the gray zone between short story and novel, containing many ambiguous labels (long short story, novella, short novel). The course will interrogate various boundaries – When does a short story become a novella? When does a novella become a novel? – 
and locate answers not merely in word count, but in reader experience and expectation. Because of the (relative) brevity of these in-between texts, the course will cover much stylistic and geographic ground. Author list may include: Franz Kafka, Victor LaValle, Don DeLillo, Carson McCullers, Nathanael West, Gabriel García Márquez, Henry James, Danielle Evans, George Saunders, Garth Greenwell, Mieko Kawakami, Aleksandar Hemon, William Gass, and Cynthia Ozick. 
 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 447-1 When Cultures Make Contact: Science Fiction and Allegories of Social Conflict Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Bausch & Lomb Room 269 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 247-1 (P), ENGL 447-1
Instructors: Sarah Higley
Description: This course examines four science fiction writers—Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stanislaw Lem, and Michel Faber—who address the perilous issues of voyage into foreign terrain, calling upon post-colonial criticism to guide us. Clarke's novels Rendezvous with Rama and Childhood's End will be read in conjunction with Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed. We will read Solaris by Lem and see one or both films made of it. Faber’s Under the Skin interrogates our treatment of animals by making us prey to aliens and The Book of Strange New Things tells the daring story about a minister who has been asked by a non-human race to continue his missionary work on Oasis, with no concept that his idea of Christianity doesn’t square with theirs. We end with Ted Chiang’s story and its film adaptation, Arrival, which investigates cultural barriers created by language, body, and foreign ground—matters that drive all stories about the Otherworld, and the complex problems of misreading each other.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 448-1 Contemporary Women's Writing Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Lattimore Room 431 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: ENGL 248-1 (P), ENGL 448-1, GSWS 286-1
Instructors: Bette London
Description: In recent years, we have seen a virtual explosion of writing by women, with women’s novels constituting some of the most widely read and critically admired work being produced today. The global reach of both its authors and audiences has made contemporary women’s writing a truly international phenomenon. We will examine what makes this work especially innovative: its experimentation with new voices and narrative forms and its blurring of genre boundaries. We will look at the dialogue it has established with the past, where it often finds its inspiration, self-consciously appropriating earlier literary texts or rewriting history.  We will also consider what special challenges this work poses for its readers. Looking at works originating in a wide range of locations, this course, will explore the diverse shapes of contemporary women's imagination and attempt to account for the compelling interest of this new body of fiction.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 452-1 Theater in England Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ENGL 252-1 (P), ENGL 452-1
Instructors: Katherine Mannheimer
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description:  This 4-credit intersession course will be conducted in London, UK, from December 26, 2022–January 7, 2023. Attending two plays per day with a seminar discussion each morning, students in this course are exposed to a full range of theatre experiences, from intimate theatre-in-the-round to monumental productions at the National Theatre, and from West End spectaculars to cutting-edge works mounted in post-industrial spaces. See the link on the English Department homepage to find the course's website, which describes the program in greater detail and contains syllabi from the past 25+ years. Need-based financial aid is available. The fee total is $2850 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 458-1 Film as Object Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Wegmans Room 1009 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
14
Co-Located: CLTR 230-1 (P), CLTR 430-1, ENGL 258-2, ENGL 458-1, FMST 243-1, JPNS 207-1
Instructors: Joanne Bernardi
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Moving images recorded on analog film defined the 20th century in an unprecedented way. This course considers the tangible object that is the source of the image onscreen, and the social, cultural, and historical value of a reel of film as an organic element with a finite life cycle. We focus on the analog photographic element and its origins (both theatrical and small gauge), the basics of photochemical film technology, and the state of film conservation and preservation worldwide. Guest lectures by staff of the Moving Image Department of George Eastman Museum provide a first-hand look at film preservation in action, allowing us to consider analog film as an ephemeral form of material culture: a multipurpose, visual record that is art, entertainment, evidentiary document, and historical artifact. Weekly film assignments. Class meets on River Campus and at George Eastman Museum (900 East Ave, no admission fee but students provide their own transportation). No audits, no pre-requisites. Enrollment limited by hands-on nature of course.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 462-1 Postwar Italian Directors: Fellini, Antonioni,Cavani Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 105 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: CLTR 212-1 (P), ENGL 262-1, ENGL 462-1, FMST 239-1, ITAL 243-1
Instructors: Andrew Korn
Description: This course explores three of Italy’s most prominent post-WWII directors, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Liliana Cavani, who developed distinct cinemas and contributed radical representations to key cultural debates. Students will examine each filmmaker’s specific thematic and stylistic innovations, such as Fellini’s carnivalesque and dreamlike states, Antonioni’s use of space and color, and Cavani’s marginal figures and use of flashback. Students will also compare how their works address three of postwar Italy’s and the West’s most critical questions: modernization, the 1968 student protests and the legacy of Fascism. Films include: Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and Amarcord; Antonioni’s Red Desert and Zabriskie Point; and Cavani’s The Cannibals and The Night Porter. Assignments include: historical, biographical and critical readings, film screenings, short papers and a final essay. Readings will be in English and films will be shown with English subtitles.
Offered: Fall Spring
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ENGL 465-1 Documentary Film and Media Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Morey Room 525 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
32 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: ENGL 265-1 (P), ENGL 465-1, FMST 226-1
Instructors: Jason Middleton
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course examines major historical movements and styles in the documentary film tradition, and explores the spread of documentary across a range of media platforms. We will study the expository documentary, ethnographic film, the direct cinema and cinéma vérité movements, documentary’s intersections with avant-garde film, mock documentary and hoax films, personal and autobiographical film and video, animated documentary, and digital interactive documentary media. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 468-1 Digital Imaging Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Rettner Hall Room 307 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: DMST 210-2 (P), DSCC 210-1, DSCC 410-1, ENGL 268-1, ENGL 468-1
Instructors: Gregory Heyworth
Description: This course introduces students to the methods involved in turning real objects into virtual ones using cutting edge digital imaging technology and image rendering techniques. Focusing on manuscripts, paintings, maps, and 3D artifacts, students will learn the basics of multispectral imaging, photogrammetry, and Reflectance Transformation Imaging, and spectral image processing using ENVI and Photoshop. These skills will be applied to data from the ongoing research of the Lazarus Project as well as to local cultural heritage collections.
Offered: Spring
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ENGL 472-1 Moving Image Archive Management Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Jeffrey Stoiber
Description: Restricted to Selznick Students
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 473-1 Laboratory Work Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Jeffrey Stoiber
Description: Restricted to Selznick Students
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 474-1 Personal Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Jeffrey Stoiber
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Restricted to Selznick Students
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 475-1 Seminar in Writing: Fiction Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1640 Lechase Room 182 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: ENGL 375-1 (P), ENGL 475-1
Instructors: Joanna Scott
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Read short stories by contemporary writers along with fiction by the students in the workshop, and discuss ways writers can sharpen the conversation between text and reader. Also consider editing and reviewing techniques. Students expected to write and revise at least three original stories or three sections of a longer work of fiction.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 475-2 Seminar in Writing: Fiction Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1650 1930 Morey Room 303 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: ENGL 375-2 (P), ENGL 475-2
Instructors: Joanna Scott
Description: Read short stories by contemporary writers along with fiction by the students in the workshop, and discuss ways writers can sharpen the conversation between text and reader. Also consider editing and reviewing techniques. Students expected to write and revise at least three original stories or three sections of a longer work of fiction. Please contact Professor Joanna Scott, jscott15@ur.rochester.edu, for permission to enroll.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 476-1 Seminar in Writing: Poetry Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1650 Rush Rhees Library Room 226 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: ENGL 276-1 (P), ENGL 376-1, ENGL 476-1
Instructors: Jennifer Grotz
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Poems, as William Carlos Williams once said, are machines made out of words, and in this advanced poetry workshop we will work on making the most gorgeous, gripping, and efficient machines possible. To that end, we will read both one another's poems and poems by established authors, in either case paying attention to the ways in which the authors harness aspects of their medium, the English language: syntax, diction, rhythm. The poems we write may take any shape, any form, but we will work towards understanding why a particular poem must take the shape it has; we will pay attention not so much to what the poems say as to how they say it. In addition, this course will explore and attend to process, which may include questions of inspiration, generation, and revision. and Requirements: weekly writing and reading assignments, revisions of assignments, devoted participation in class discussions.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 480-2 Research Seminars Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Thomas Hahn
Description: Advanced seminars focus on a particular body of works (literary or cinematic), a special research topic, or a particular critical or theoretical issue. One or more extended critical essays will be required. Open to junior and senior English majors. Others may be admitted by permission of instructor.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 482-1 The Horror Film Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1650 1930 Morey Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: ENGL 380-6 (P), ENGL 482-1, FMST 232-1
Instructors: Jason Middleton
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course examines major critical issues surrounding the horror genre, through close study of Classical Hollywood, post-classical, and international horror films, and readings in critical theory. Issues to be explored include boundary transgression and bodily abjection in the construction of the horror monster; gender, pregnancy, and the monstrous-feminine; social Otherness (race, class, sexuality) as monstrosity; the figure of the serial killer and the shift from classic to modern horror; the grotesque and the blending of comedy and horror in the zombie film. As a research seminar, the course will involve the development of a substantial research project.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 484-1 Orality, Language & Literacy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Morey Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: ENGL 284-1 (P), ENGL 484-1, GSWS 283-1
Instructors: David Bleich
Description: We consider issues raised in Walter Ong's '82 study, "Orality & Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word." His account related the growth of writing & print to the development of science & modern rational thought, exploring possible changes in collective consciousness as a result of the shift of media emphasis. We'll examine classical sources, including Plato's suspicion of the power of oral poetry, & consider levels of literacy achieved in ancient society; we'll look at European medieval traditions. Discussions on the roles language & literature played in the lives of non-literate people as contrasted with literate. Study of the modern & contemporary periods focuses on practices as conversation, becoming literate, collection of oral accounts & their uses, uses of ethnographic writing, & different approaches to speech, writing, & language in African American & white communities. Key aim of the course is to show the politics, mutual dependency, & reciprocity of oral/literate uses of language in literary/nonliterary.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 504-1 Studies in Book History: The Medieval and Early Modern Miscellany Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1640 Morey Room 403 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Steven Rozenski
Description: Encountering early texts in their manuscript and print contexts, as the original readers would have, is a dramatically different experience from reading medieval and early modern literature today. Although differences in letter forms, bindings, ink, illumination practices, spelling, rubrication, punctuation, glossing, and page layout all contribute to this, perhaps the most significant difference is the way in which multiple texts were compiled and grouped into codices by medieval scribes and early modern printers. The miscellany, in fact, is the norm among vernacular books in England for most of its literary history. A medieval reader would have encountered Beowulf alongside a poetic translation of the Hebrew Bible’s Judith and the prose Letter of Alexander to Aristotle; readers of the codex in which Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is found might instead have been more interested in Pearl or Cleanness; Wyatt first appeared to most Renaissance English readers fifteen years after his death in Tottel’s Miscellany. Yet today, Beowulf is nearly a household name, while its neighbors (copied by the same two scribes in London, British Library, MS Vitellius A.XV) are nearly forgotten. This research seminar will explore practices of compilation in several early books and recent scholarship examining important miscellanies; we will also read two late-medieval works (by the English poet Thomas Hoccleve and the German mystic Henry Suso) which dramatize the process of creating a collection of disparate texts. The term will conclude with student reports on individual miscellanies of particular interest to their own research, as well as some “pseudo-miscellanies” (such as the eighteenth-century Bog-House Miscellany, purporting to assemble poetry from the walls of public toilets across Britain).
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 511-1 Literature and Violence Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1400 1640 Morey Room 403 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Ezra Tawil
Description: A seminar on the intersection between violence and literature. We’ll consider three types of writing and the relationships among them: a select archive of literary works (from classical epic and tragedy to contemporary lyric and fiction) that thematize violence in illuminating or challenging ways; some literary criticism which take violence as a privileged category of literary analysis (e.g., Richard Slotkin’s Regeneration Through Violence); and some of the philosophical literature on the theory of violence (Nietzsche, Benjamin, Girard, Arendt, Fanon, Agamben, Butler).
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 521-1 Race and Religion in Early Modern Literature Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Morey Room 403 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: William Miller
Description: The modern histories of both racism and abolitionism can be traced to the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, a period that witnessed genocidal trade wars in South Asia, the enslavement of millions of Africans in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and the deracination of many of the First Nations of the Americas. Writers at the time—those who glorified these and other atrocities, those who condemned them, and those who simply stood by as they happened—almost always interpreted these events within the conceptual vocabulary we now associate with religion: the language of soul, spirit, prophecy, witchcraft, apocalypse, redemption, salvation, damnation, angelic inspiration, and demonic possession. This course seeks to interrogate this connection. To what extent does an awareness of this spiritual dimension of the economic, social, and psychological histories of race illuminate past texts? Present circumstances? Future possibilities? While the course focuses on early modern Anglophone writers (including William Shakespeare, Mary Rowlandson, Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, and Ottobah Cugoano) it also emphasizes urgent scholarly and literary-critical writings of recent years which have sought both to interpret the world and to change it.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 551-1 Ordinary Literature Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Morey Room 403 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: David Bleich
Description: Toril Moi, in her book, Revolution of the Ordinary (2017) has urged ordinary language as a framework for the study of literature. This sense of language highlights speakers and uses in all contexts. Moi and Rita Felskialso consider how this view of language overrides the traditional “hermeneutics of suspicion”--a way of reading that separates “meaning” from observable language, that meaning is occult, or that it needs to be recovered from texts and speech. Both critics urge a renewed respect for the experience and contexts of reading, for how different constituencies read and talk about literature through tropes of common sense, local interest, and collective purpose. We consider, in the light of 20th century criticism and theory, how this perspective on literary study has come about. We review New Criticism and early statements by feminist and critics of color that led to Moi’s and Felski’s proposals. Students are invited to propose texts to be read as “ordinary literature.”
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 572-1 Practicum In Teaching Of Writing Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 900 1015 Rush Rhees Library Room G121A 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 572-1, WRTG 572-1 (P)
Instructors: Stefanie Sydelnik; Matt Bayne
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The yearlong practicum has two components, a practicum group, which is led by a 571 course instructor, and a mentor group, which is led by an experienced WSAP instructor. These two groups involve new instructors in a combination of small group meetings, class observations, individual meetings, and workshops designed to support and further educate new instructors. Small group meetings, classroom observations, and individual meetings offer new teachers a chance to gain different perspectives on their teaching, identify their teaching strengths, and work out solutions to teaching difficulties. The larger goal of all meetings is to encourage instructors to work with colleagues across the disciplines to create a supportive and intellectually challenging community, a community that they can call on throughout their career as educators.
Offered: Spring
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ENGL 573-1 Teaching Apprenticeship Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Ezra Tawil
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ENGL 574-1 Moving Image Preservation in Practice Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Jeffrey Stoiber
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Under the direction of English Department Faculty and staff of George Eastman Museum’s Moving Image Department, the student will plan and undertake a significant project designed to challenge her/his abilities to function at a professional level in the moving image archive field. Examples of potential projects include: archival projection, public programming and exhibitions, collection management, video and digital preservation techniques, processing and conservation of motion picture related materials, acquisitions, access and cataloging.
 
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ENGL 580-1 Pedagogical Training Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Ezra Tawil
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Film and Media Studies
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FMST 103-1 Topics in GSWS: TV Dreams and Gendered Screens Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Meliora Room 218 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: AHST 172-1, FMST 103-1, GSWS 100-1 (P)
Instructors: Madeline Ullrich
Description: Is television a gendered medium? Given the prevalence of cop shows and male anti-heroes that characterize “peak” or quality TV (both past and present), many would assume that television is a “masculine” medium, made up of “masculine” genres. However, the history of television says otherwise. This course traces the numerous ways that television—as an institution, an industry, a narrative form, and a social space—becomes aligned with various notions of gender, in the form of femininity, domesticity, feminism, “women’s culture,” and the female consumer, all at different historical moments. What these different historical moments do share, however, is the assumption that the female television viewer is always coded as white, middle class, cisgender, and able-bodied. To examine how representations of gender have taken shape on television, we will study television chronologically, spanning television sitcoms and soap operas of the 1950s and 1960s, to the rise of feminist television (Julia, The Mary Tyler Moore Show) in the 1970s, to images of “working women” in the 1980s and 90s. In the final weeks of the seminar, we will discuss the rise of streaming television, “narrowcasting,” and contemporary attempts of intersectionality on television—and how new forms of television have created new ways of thinking about gender.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FMST 131-1 Intro to Media Studies Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Meliora Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
64 		Capacity     
64
Co-Located: AHST 102-1 (P), ENGL 118-1, FMST 131-1
Instructors: Joel Burges
Description: This course provides a broad overview and introduction to media. We will cover histories of different types of media (internet, radio, audio recordings, television, cable, film, journalism, magazines, advertising, public relations, etc.) as well as various theories and approaches to studying media. No prior knowledge is necessary, but a real interest and willingness to explore a variety of media will come in handy. Occasional outside screenings will be required (but if you cannot attend the scheduled screenings, you may watch the films on your own time through the Multimedia Center reserves.) Students will be evaluated based on assigned writing, classroom discussion leading, participation, short quizzes, midterm exam and final exam.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FMST 132-1 Intro to the Art of Film Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
29 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: AHST 136-1, ENGL 117-1 (P), FMST 132-1
Instructors: Jason Middleton
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: As an introduction to the art of film, this course will present the concepts of film form, film aesthetics, and film style, while remaining attentive to the various ways in which cinema also involves an interaction with audiences and larger social structures.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FMST 205-1 New Media and Emerging Practices 1 Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1930 Sage Arts Center Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: DMST 111-1, FMST 205-1, SART 151-1 (P)
Instructors: Andrew Salomone
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course merges contemporary art production with technologies and social interventions. Students will combine historical, inter-media approaches with new, evolving trends in social practice. This course offering uses cyberpunk, a subgenre of science fiction, as a framework for examining contemporary art and media production in both theory and practice. Students will deploy introductory level techniques to create new works at the intersection of art, design, and technology. Not open to seniors. $75 Studio Fee. If the course fills and you would like to be added to the waitlist, fill out the form found at this link: https://www.sageart.center/resources.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FMST 211-1 African American Cinema and Its Contexts Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Morey Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: AAAS 217-1, AHST 240-1 (P), AHST 440-1, FMST 211-1
Instructors: Sharon Willis
Description: This course will offer a survey of African American film and filmmakers from the early 20th century to the 21st.  Directors we will study include: Oscar Micheaux, Ivan Dixon, Melvin Van Peebles, Gordon Parks, Charles Burnett, Carl Franklin, Dee Rees, Cheryl Dunye, Julie Dash, Kasi Lemmons, Ava DuVernay, Spike Lee, John Singleton, Ryan Coogler, Jordan Peele.  We will also explore the incisive critical and theoretical work African American critics have produced in response to these films and the contexts in which they emerge.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FMST 226-1 Documentary Film and Media Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Morey Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
32 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: ENGL 265-1 (P), ENGL 465-1, FMST 226-1
Instructors: Jason Middleton
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course examines major historical movements and styles in the documentary film tradition, and explores the spread of documentary across a range of media platforms. We will study the expository documentary, ethnographic film, the direct cinema and cinéma vérité movements, documentary’s intersections with avant-garde film, mock documentary and hoax films, personal and autobiographical film and video, animated documentary, and digital interactive documentary media. 
Offered: Fall Spring
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FMST 230-1 On the Move: Ethnographic Films Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Morey Room 501 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CLTR 248-1 (P), FMST 230-1, GRMN 248-1, GSWS 240-1
Instructors: June Hwang
Description: This course will explore various concepts of mobility and encounters within ethnographic films and texts. Questions we will investigate include: How does one represent a culture? What notions of race, gender, sexuality and national identities are reinforced and challenged in these works? Who speaks for whom and what are the consequences? What kinds of power relationships are hidden or made visible in these films and texts?
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FMST 232-1 The Horror Film Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1650 1930 Morey Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: ENGL 380-6 (P), ENGL 482-1, FMST 232-1
Instructors: Jason Middleton
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course examines major critical issues surrounding the horror genre, through close study of Classical Hollywood, post-classical, and international horror films, and readings in critical theory. Issues to be explored include boundary transgression and bodily abjection in the construction of the horror monster; gender, pregnancy, and the monstrous-feminine; social Otherness (race, class, sexuality) as monstrosity; the figure of the serial killer and the shift from classic to modern horror; the grotesque and the blending of comedy and horror in the zombie film. As a research seminar, the course will involve the development of a substantial research project.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FMST 233-1 Comedy in Film and Television Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Gavett Hall Room 312 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: DMST 213-1, DMST 213W-1, ENGL 380-3 (P), FMST 233-1
Instructors: Joel Burges
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: From rom coms, musical comedies, and sitcoms to tragicomedy, satire, and slapstick, many versions of comedy have made us laugh out loud or smile sardonically from the ancients to the moderns. While this history will have a place in our course, we will primarily investigate comedy in film and television of the 20th and 21st centuries. We will explore critical issues related to comedy, including the function and meaning of laughter and jokes; moments of comic relief; the relationship of comedy to community and crisis; love, sexuality, and romance; the role of the body and whether comedy is a "body genre"; how race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class get messily mediated by comedy; the difference of comedy from other modes such as tragedy, horror, and realism; and the varying tones comedy can have from dark to light, serious to fun, and comforting to disturbing. Preference will be given to English, Digital Media Studies, and Film & Media Studies majors fulfilling a requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FMST 236-1 Japanese Science Fiction and Planetary Possible Futures Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1650 1930 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: CLTR 264E-1 (P), FMST 236-1, JPNS 245-1
Instructors: William Bridges
Description: A good science fiction story,' Frederik Pohl proposes, 'should be able to predict not the automobile, but the traffic jam.' This course considers the 'traffic jams'the far-flung possible worlds imagined in Japanese science fictionfrom the 1920s to the present. Genres covered include the short story, short short story, novel, manga, anime, and film. Japanese science fiction is considered in planetary perspective: Japanese works are considered alongside pertinent works from other national traditions of science fiction. This course is interested ultimately in explorations of a futuristic approach to the study of literature: it is interested in what our readings today might tell us about what tomorrow might bring. All readings are done in English translation; all viewing have English subtitling.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FMST 239-1 Postwar Italian Directors: Fellini, Antonioni, Cavani Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 105 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: CLTR 212-1 (P), ENGL 262-1, ENGL 462-1, FMST 239-1, ITAL 243-1
Instructors: Andrew Korn
Description: This course explores three of Italy’s mostprominent postwar directors, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Liliana Cavani, who developed distinct cinemas and contributed radical representations to key cultural debates. 
Students will examine each filmmaker’s specific formal and thematic innovations, such as Fellini’s 
carnivalesque and dreamlike states, Antonioni’s use of space and color, and Cavani’s marginal 
figures and use of flashback. Students will also compare how their works address three of postwar 
Italy’s and the West’s most critical questions: modernization, the 1968 student protests and the 
legacy of Fascism. Films include: Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and Amarcord; Antonioni’s Red Desert and 
Zabriskie Point; Cavani’s The Cannibals and The Night Porter. Assignments include: historical, 
biographical and critical readings, film screenings, short papers and a final essay. Readings will 
be in English and films will be shown with English subtitles
Offered: Fall Spring
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FMST 243-1 Film as Object Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Wegmans Room 1009 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
14
Co-Located: CLTR 230-1 (P), CLTR 430-1, ENGL 258-2, ENGL 458-1, FMST 243-1, JPNS 207-1
Instructors: Joanne Bernardi
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Moving images recorded on analog film defined the 20th century in an unprecedented way. This course considers the tangible object that is the source of the image onscreen, and the social, cultural, and historical value of a reel of film as an organic element with a finite life cycle. We focus on the analog photographic element and its origins (both theatrical and small gauge), the basics of photochemical film technology, and the state of film conservation and preservation worldwide. Guest lectures by staff of the Moving Image Department of George Eastman Museum provide a first-hand look at film preservation in action, allowing us to consider analog film as an ephemeral form of material culture: a multipurpose, visual record that is art, entertainment, evidentiary document, and historical artifact. Weekly film assignments. Class meets on River Campus and at George Eastman Museum (900 East Ave, no admission fee but students provide their own transportation). No audits, no pre-requisites. Enrollment limited by hands-on nature of course.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FMST 257-1 Advanced Video: Mind Society Environment Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1640 Sage Arts Center Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: DMST 221-1, EHUM 255-1, FMST 257-1, SART 262A-1 (P), SART 262B-1, SART 262C-1
Instructors: Cary Adams
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: "It’s not climate change—it’s everything change," novelist Margaret Atwood has said. This course uses video and moving image to examine the deep intertwined and intersectional roots of the ecological crisis, from viral pandemics and racial justice to the disruption of our climate and all the other apocalyptic scenarios we currently find ourselves in. To guide our development of eco-cinematic consciousness, we will study the works of Kenyan activist Mangari Maathai, Native American (Chickasaw) writer Linda Hogan, and French philosopher Félix Guattari's foundational text, The Three Ecologies, to understand how ecologies of mind, media, and environment are interrelated and to complicate our understandings of "nature." Student Projects will involve installation, single-channel, sound, and networked-based approaches. Works will be examined within a critical environmental arts framework through readings, critiques, viewings and discussions. Permission of instructor. $75 studio fee. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FMST 260-1 Screenwriting Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1400 1640 Lechase Room 182 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: ENGL 277-2 (P), FMST 260-1
Instructors: Stephen Schottenfeld
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: An introduction to the three-act film structure. Students will read and view numerous screenplays and films, and develop their own film treatment into a full-length script. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FMST 261-1 Film Music Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Dewey Room 1305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: FMST 261-1, MUSC 128-1 (P)
Instructors: Jacquelyn Sholes
Description: This course will trace the history of music in film from the inception of silent motion pictures in the late 19th century to present-day productions. Will consider how the aural and visual aspects of the medium interact dramatically and how the music can enhance or otherwise influence interpretation of what is happening on the screen.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FMST 277-1 Tourist Japan Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Hylan Building Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
1
Instructors: Joanne Bernardi
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Focused on but not limited to the first half of the 20th century, this course explores representations of Japan in a wide range of visual and material culture: e.g., ephemera generated by tourism, education and entertainment; advertisements and souvenirs; and wartime propaganda traveling similar routes of exchange. Travel brochures, guidebooks, photographs, postcards, films and other objects reflect changing concepts of urban space, rural culture, industry, geography, and military and political authority. Recurrent iconography and coded images link tourism and educational objects and images with evolving concepts of and questions regarding modernity, nationalism and cultural identity: e.g., how is the meaning of “modernity” in Japan useful to a study of the continuous transformation of culture in specific contexts, as in the transition from ukiyo-e culture to photography and animated films? This lecture/discussion course has a digital component: students work hands-on with the Re-Envisioning Japan Collection and digital archive, learning both critical analysis and digital curation skills. The course includes weekly film assignments and one field trip each to the Memorial Art Gallery and George Eastman Museum. No audits. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FMST 392-1 Practicum Spring 2023 Lecture Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Description: Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Modern Languages & Cultures - French
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
FREN 101-1 Elementary French I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lechase Room 181 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Carole Nasra
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE COURSE, YOU MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION 101-2 or 101-3. French 101 is an introductory language course. Students learn fundamentals of grammar, and pronunciation in the context of French culture. Emphasis is on developing communicating skills, principally speaking but also including listening, reading and writing. There is an obligatory recitation section twice a week in addition to the main class.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FREN 102-1 Elementary French II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Lechase Room 122 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Carole Nasra
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: PREREQUISITE: FREN 101 OR PLACEMENT. STUDENT MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION FREN102-5 and FREN102-6. French 102 continues the work of the beginning course. There is an additional emphasis on reading comprehension and vocabulary building.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FREN 102-2 Elementary French II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lechase Room 143 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Julie Papaioannou
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description:
PREREQUISITE: FREN 101 OR PLACEMENT. STUDENT MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION FREN102-3 or FREN102-4. French 102 continues the work of the beginning course. There is an additional emphasis on reading comprehension and vocabulary building
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FREN 153-1 Intermediate French Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Lechase Room 161 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Carole Nasra
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: PREREQUISITE: FREN 102 OR PLACEMENT. Intermediate French. Development of oral and written skills through the exploration of specific topics and themes. Emphasis on grammatical forms and idioms.
Offered: Fall Spring
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FREN 155-1 French Conversation & Comp Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 900 950 Lattimore Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Emma Serrano
Description: The most advanced conversation and composition course aims to bring students to a level of proficiency with the spoken language, including its idimatic forms, and to refine composition skills. Course materials include extensive use of popular French culture, including film.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FREN 200-1 Advanced French Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Lattimore Room 413 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Julie Papaioannou
Description: PREREQUISITE: FREN 153 OR PLACEMENT. Intensive practice in reading, writing, and speaking French, based on rigorous grammar review and on close readings of literary and cultural texts. Classroom work emphasizes grammar, speaking, reading and writing French.
Offered: Fall Spring
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FREN 202-1 Introduction to French Literature Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Lattimore Room 431 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
19
Instructors: Robert Doran
Description: PREREQUISITE: FREN 200 OR PLACEMENT. This course is designed to provide students with intensive practice in reading and analyzing a broad range of French literary texts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the twentieth-century. Texts will be read and discussed with an eye toward improving students' comprehension, developing their vocabulary, and expanding their interpretive and analytic capabilities.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FREN 212-1 French Literature in Translation Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lechase Room 160 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: FREN 212-1 (P), FREN 412-1, LTST 231-1, LTST 431-1
Instructors: Julie Papaioannou
Description: Course offers extensive practice in textual analysis and translation of selected literary texts from French to English. Mainly contemporary, all selected texts have originally been written in French, come from various cultural backgrounds and address different stylistic levels. Theoretical approaches to translation with focus on literature will be discussed, and exercises on grammar and syntax review from English to French will also be introduced. Open Pedagogy approach and workshop-based classwork.  Prerequisite: FREN 200 or instructor permission
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FREN 228-1 Humanitarianism and Social Insecurities Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lechase Room 161 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: AAAS 280-1, AAAS 412-1, CLTR 229B-1 (P), CLTR 429B-1, FREN 228-1, FREN 428-1
Instructors: Cilas Kemedjio
Description: Humanitarianism, largely understood as the ultimate of ethical acts, took root in the modern world not as a response to war or “emergencies” but as part of an effort to remake the world so that it better served the interests of humanity. Against the “hegemonic corporate forces of predatory capitalism,” aid agencies perform the work of welfare workers who are part of the network of moral discourses, religious beliefs, ethical commitments, and international norms that generate an obligation to help distant strangers.” Humanitarianism and Social Insecurities engages students in a critical understanding of humanitarianism discourses and practices through an investigation of polemics, misunderstandings, testimonials, and the creative imagination inspired by humanitarian interventions. With the recognition that “noble actions can have negative and unintended consequences”, this course takes the student from a position of moral indignation to one of a critical indignation, and ultimately, a better understanding of the practices and discourses generated by the phenomenon of charity, humanitarianism, and Social Insecurities.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FREN 252-1 Modern France: Revolution, Reaction, and Reform Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Bausch & Lomb Room 315 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: FREN 252-1, HIST 232-1 (P), HIST 232W-1
Instructors: Jean Pedersen
Description: Alternately friends and rivals, modern France and the United States have had a complicated relationship ever since both nations were born in revolution at the end of the eighteenth century. This course will seek to understand France on its own terms by considering a series of formative events such as the French Revolution, the Revolutions of 1830 and 1848, the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, the Dreyfus Affair and the birth of the intellectual, the very different experiences of World Wars I and II, the post-colonial conflicts in Algeria and Vietnam, the near-revolution of May 1968, and current conflicts in French foreign and domestic policy.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FREN 257-1 Sex, Lies, and Secrets: Libertinism in Early Modern France Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Lechase Room 182 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: FREN 257-1 (P), FREN 457-1
Instructors: Anna Rosensweig
Description: What does it mean to live freely? What is the relationship between freedom and happiness? Should there be limits on one’s pursuit of happiness, of pleasure? This course will take up these questions through the philosophical tradition of libertinism in early modern France. During this historical period, libertines were both celebrated and critiqued for their tendency to flout political and social norms. We will explore the limits and possibilities of the libertine tradition through its myriad manifestations in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. We will read libertine texts that tackle questions of sexuality and consent, political protest, and the scientific imagination. We will also consider the relationship between early modern libertinism and our contemporary moment. Readings will include: Bergerac, "L'Autre Monde: ou les États et Empires de la Lune"; Châtelet, "Discours sur le bonheur"; Laclos, "Les Liaisons Dangereuses"; Molière, "Dom Juan." Conducted in French.
Offered: Fall Spring
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FREN 296-1 Philosophy of Music Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1650 1930 Eastman School Of Music Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: CLTR 240A-1, CLTR 440A-1, FREN 296-1, FREN 496-1, TH 282-1 (P), TH 482-1
Instructors: Robert Doran; Jonathan Dunsby
Description: This course examines philosophical approaches to music (broadly defined) and thus lies at the frontiers of music theory, philosophical aesthetics, and philosophy of art. Themes to be explored include the ontology of music, performance theory, the problem of musical representation, musical semiotics, phenomenology of music, music and aesthetic value, and musical affect theory. Theoreticians and philosophers studied include classic (Hanslick, Gurney), as well as twentieth-century (Adorno, Jankélévitch) and contemporary (Peter Kivy, Stephen Davies, Lydia Goehr, Jean-Jacques Nattiez) authors. No prerequisites, but students must be able to read music notation to take this course. Conducted in English.
Offered: Spring
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FREN 392-1 Practicum Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Description: Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FREN 412-1 French Literature in Translation Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lechase Room 160 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: FREN 212-1 (P), FREN 412-1, LTST 231-1, LTST 431-1
Instructors: Julie Papaioannou
Description: Course offers extensive practice in textual analysis and translation of selected literary texts from French to English. Mainly contemporary, all selected texts have originally been written in French, come from various cultural backgrounds and address different stylistic levels. Theoretical approaches to translation with focus on literature will be discussed, and exercises on grammar and syntax review from English to French will also be introduced. Open Pedagogy approach and workshop-based classwork. Prerequisite: FREN 200 or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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FREN 428-1 Humanitarianism and Social Insecurities Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lechase Room 161 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: AAAS 280-1, AAAS 412-1, CLTR 229B-1 (P), CLTR 429B-1, FREN 228-1, FREN 428-1
Instructors: Cilas Kemedjio
Description: Humanitarianism, largely understood as the ultimate of ethical acts, took root in the modern world not as a response to war or “emergencies” but as part of an effort to remake the world so that it better served the interests of humanity. Against the “hegemonic corporate forces of predatory capitalism,” aid agencies perform the work of welfare workers who are part of the network of moral discourses, religious beliefs, ethical commitments, and international norms that generate an obligation to help distant strangers.” Humanitarianism and Social Insecurities engages students in a critical understanding of humanitarianism discourses and practices through an investigation of polemics, misunderstandings, testimonials, and the creative imagination inspired by humanitarian interventions. With the recognition that “noble actions can have negative and unintended consequences”, this course takes the student from a position of moral indignation to one of a critical indignation, and ultimately, a better understanding of the practices and discourses generated by the phenomenon of charity, humanitarianism, and Social Insecurities.
Offered: Fall Spring
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FREN 457-1 Sex, Lies, and Secrets: Libertinism in Early Modern France Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Lechase Room 182 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: FREN 257-1 (P), FREN 457-1
Instructors: Anna Rosensweig
Description: What does it mean to live freely? What is the relationship between freedom and happiness? Should there be limits on one’s pursuit of happiness, of pleasure? This course will take up these questions through the philosophical tradition of libertinism in early modern France. During this historical period, libertines were both celebrated and critiqued for their tendency to flout political and social norms. We will explore the limits and possibilities of the libertine tradition through its myriad manifestations in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. We will read libertine texts that tackle questions of sexuality and consent, political protest, and the scientific imagination. We will also consider the relationship between early modern libertinism and our contemporary moment. Readings will include: Bergerac, "L'Autre Monde: ou les États et Empires de la Lune"; Châtelet, "Discours sur le bonheur"; Laclos, "Les Liaisons Dangereuses"; Molière, "Dom Juan." This course will be taught in French.
Offered: Fall Spring
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FREN 496-1 Philosophy of Music Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1650 1930 Eastman School Of Music Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: CLTR 240A-1, CLTR 440A-1, FREN 296-1, FREN 496-1, TH 282-1 (P), TH 482-1
Instructors: Robert Doran; Jonathan Dunsby
Description: This course examines philosophical approaches to music (broadly defined) and thus lies at the frontiers of music theory, philosophical aesthetics, and philosophy of art. Themes to be explored include the ontology of music, performance theory, the problem of musical representation, musical semiotics, phenomenology of music, music and aesthetic value, and musical affect theory. Theoreticians and philosophers studied include classic (Hanslick, Gurney), as well as twentieth-century (Adorno, Jankélévitch) and contemporary (Peter Kivy, Stephen Davies, Lydia Goehr, Jean-Jacques Nattiez) authors. No prerequisites, but students must be able to read music notation to take this course. Conducted in English.
Offered: Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Modern Languages & Cultures - German
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
GRMN 102-1 Elementary German II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Lattimore Room 431 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Tanja Beljanski
Description: This is the second semester of a two-semester sequence using an exciting new interactive approach to language learning. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION GRMN 102-3 or GRMN 102-4. Students are encouraged, right from the start, to communicate in German utilizing basic vocabulary and authentic expressions in their spoken and written work. Listening comprehension is honed using audio taped material featuring a variety of native speakers, while a series of video tapes provide a basic introduction to the cultures of German speaking countries.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GRMN 102-2 Elementary German II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Lattimore Room 413 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Melisa Koeroglu
Description: This is the second semester of a two-semester sequence using an exciting new interactive approach to language learning. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION GRMN 102-3 or GRMN 102-4. Students are encouraged, right from the start, to communicate in German utilizing basic vocabulary and authentic expressions in their spoken and written work . Listening comprehension is honed using audio taped material featuring a variety of native speakers, while a series of video tapes provide a basic introduction to the cultures of German speaking countries.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GRMN 152-1 Intermediate German II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Frederick Douglass Room 403 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Tanja Beljanski
Description: Process writing, reading, and listening exercises provide the context in this course for a thorough review of German grammatical structures. Students are expected to write short, weekly essays, complete weekly assignments in listening, and hone their speaking skills through active class participation. In GER 152, the focus is shifted slightly toward reading authentic material; short pieces of fiction and newspaper articles. Goal of this two-semester sequence is communicative proficiency.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GRMN 202-1 Introduction to German Studies Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Lisa Cerami
Description: This is one of several core classes required for the major. Students should have completed at least 152 and preferably 200. This course will introduce students to basic principles of cultural analysis at the heart of the discipline of German Studies. Emphasis will focus on how the media act to form and facilitate various aspects of issues in contemporary German culture.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GRMN 217-1 Hildegard of Bingen and Her World Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Dewey Room 1305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: GRMN 217-1, MUSC 207-1 (P), RELC 287-1
Instructors: Honey Meconi
Description:
This course explores the life and times of Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179), who was a noted theologian, a major composer and poet, a leader in early scientific and medical writing, the creator of an imaginary language and a new alphabet, a figure in the political life of the twelfth century and the rise of German nationalism in the nineteenth, a possible artist of astonishing iconography, and the only musician to be recognized as both a saint and a Doctor of the Church by the Catholic Church.  The class will examine her many remarkable creations in multiple areas in the context of twelfth-century German history and culture, her reception throughout the more than 800 years since her death, and her role today in popular culture.   No prerequisites.  4 credits. 
Offered: Fall Spring
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GRMN 229-1 Kleist & Kafka Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 431 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CLTR 252A-1 (P), GRMN 229-1, GRMN 486-1
Instructors: Susan Gustafson
Description: Franz Kafka is one of Austria’s most famous and influential writers. His short prose works have had a tremendous influence on contemporary literature and cultural studies. In this course you will learn what “kafkaesque” means in its complexity. Heinrich von Kleist is less well-known in the US, but he, like Kafka, provides representations of modern bureaucratic nightmares, of blurred boundaries between reality and fantasy, ailing artists, and non-existent or idolized women.  Both authors explore the weird, dreamlike, eerie, and inexplicable nature of the world and life. This course is taught in English. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GRMN 230-1 Poe and Hoffman Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lattimore Room 431 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CLTR 242A-1 (P), CLTR 442A-1, ENGL 232-2, GRMN 230-1, GRMN 430-1
Instructors: Susan Gustafson
Description: This course explores the beginnings of the horror and detective genres in the 19th century. Particular attention is devoted to the narrative structure, tropes, and psychological content of the strange tales by Poe and Hoffmann. Theories of horror are also addressed to include discussions by lessing, Todorov, Huet, and Kristeva.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GRMN 238-1 Revolutions & Revolt Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: CLTR 238A-1 (P), CLTR 438A-1, GRMN 238-1, GRMN 438-1, GSWS 237-1, JWST 243-1
Instructors: Lisa Cerami
Description: Revolutions and Revolt is an experimental course that examines 20th century German cultural history. We will explore questions of social justice, representation, and political expression clustered around three major revolutionary moments: the German Revolution of 1918, the German Student Movement of 1968, and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Our course will be oriented by a careful reading of Marx and Engle's Communist Manifesto, that, while also defining the conditions of possibility for an empowered proletarian class, can also be used a tool to reflect on the revolutionary features of language, poetry, and art. We will think about specific genres – the manifesto, the pamphlet, political theater, and film, as genres that calls or could call "revolution" into being. These historical hinge points (a term I am borrowing from Matt Christman) bring various emancipatory impulses into relief, beyond the history of class conflict described in the Communist Manifesto, and we will engage with pacificist, anti-fascist, feminist, and Jewish texts and artworks. This course is conducted in English, and our readings are English translations of German texts, but if students of German would like to work on original texts, these can be provided along with alternative assignments where German language practice might be implemented.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GRMN 248-1 On the Move: Ethnographic Films Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Morey Room 501 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CLTR 248-1 (P), FMST 230-1, GRMN 248-1, GSWS 240-1
Instructors: June Hwang
Description:

This course will explore various concepts of mobility and encounters within ethnographic films and texts. Questions we will investigate include: How does one represent a culture? What notions of race, gender, sexuality and national identities are reinforced and challenged in these works? Who speaks for whom and what are the consequences? What kinds of power relationships are hidden or made visible in these films and texts?
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GRMN 256-1 Advanced Studies in German: German Graphic Novels Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Lattimore Room 540 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: June Hwang
Description: This course will look at the genre of the graphic novel in the German context and how artists have used this medium to explore a wide range of topics including confronting Germany’s pasts, questions of race and identity, and various German subcultures. Readings and discussions will be in German.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GRMN 392-1 Practicum Spring 2023 Lecture Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Description: Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GRMN 395-1 Independent Research Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Description: Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GRMN 430-1 Poe and Hoffman Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lattimore Room 431 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CLTR 242A-1 (P), CLTR 442A-1, ENGL 232-2, GRMN 230-1, GRMN 430-1
Instructors: Susan Gustafson
Description: This course explores the beginnings of the horror and detective genres in the 19th century. Particular attention is devoted to the narrative structure, tropes, and psychological content of the strange tales by Poe and Hoffmann. Theories of horror are also addressed to include discussions by lessing, Todorov, Huet, and Kristeva. NOTE: THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GRMN 438-1 Revolutions & Revolt Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: CLTR 238A-1 (P), CLTR 438A-1, GRMN 238-1, GRMN 438-1, GSWS 237-1, JWST 243-1
Instructors: Lisa Cerami
Description: Revolutions and Revolt is an experimental course that examines 20th century German cultural history. We will explore questions of social justice, representation, and political expression clustered around three major revolutionary moments: the German Revolution of 1918, the German Student Movement of 1968, and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Our course will be oriented by a careful reading of Marx and Engle's Communist Manifesto, that, while also defining the conditions of possibility for an empowered proletarian class, can also be used a tool to reflect on the revolutionary features of language, poetry, and art. We will think about specific genres – the manifesto, the pamphlet, political theater, and film, as genres that calls or could call "revolution" into being. These historical hinge points (a term I am borrowing from Matt Christman) bring various emancipatory impulses into relief, beyond the history of class conflict described in the Communist Manifesto, and we will engage with pacificist, anti-fascist, feminist, and Jewish texts and artworks. This course is conducted in English, and our readings are English translations of German texts, but if students of German would like to work on original texts, these can be provided along with alternative assignments where German language practice might be implemented.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GRMN 486-1 Kleist & Kafka Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 431 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CLTR 252A-1 (P), GRMN 229-1, GRMN 486-1
Instructors: Susan Gustafson
Description: Franz Kafka is one of Austria’s most famous and influential writers. His short prose works have had a tremendous influence on contemporary literature and cultural studies. In this course you will learn what “kafkaesque” means in its complexity. Heinrich von Kleist is less well-known in the US, but he, like Kafka, provides representations of modern bureaucratic nightmares, of blurred boundaries between reality and fantasy, ailing artists, and non-existent or idolized women.  Both authors explore the weird, dreamlike, eerie, and inexplicable nature of the world and life. This course is taught in English. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
GSWS 100-1 Topics in GSWS: TV Dreams and Gendered Screens Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Meliora Room 218 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: AHST 172-1, FMST 103-1, GSWS 100-1 (P)
Instructors: Madeline Ullrich
Description: Is television a gendered medium? Given the prevalence of cop shows and male anti-heroes that characterize “peak” or quality TV (both past and present), many would assume that television is a “masculine” medium, made up of “masculine” genres. However, the history of television says otherwise. This course traces the numerous ways that television—as an institution, an industry, a narrative form, and a social space—becomes aligned with various notions of gender, in the form of femininity, domesticity, feminism, “women’s culture,” and the female consumer, all at different historical moments. What these different historical moments do share, however, is the assumption that the female television viewer is always coded as white, middle class, cisgender, and able-bodied. To examine how representations of gender have taken shape on television, we will study television chronologically, spanning television sitcoms and soap operas of the 1950s and 1960s, to the rise of feminist television (Julia, The Mary Tyler Moore Show) in the 1970s, to images of “working women” in the 1980s and 90s. In the final weeks of the seminar, we will discuss the rise of streaming television, “narrowcasting,” and contemporary attempts of intersectionality on television—and how new forms of television have created new ways of thinking about gender.
Offered: Fall Spring
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GSWS 105-1 Sex and Power Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1400 1640 Hylan Building Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Janet Werther
Description: This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary scholarship of Gender, Sexuality and Women's studies. As a survey course, this class is designed to give students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines a basic understanding of debates and perspectives discussed in the field. We will use gender as a critical lens to examine some of the social, cultural, economic, scientific, and political practices that organize our lives. We will explore a multitude of feminist perspectives on the intersections of sex, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, religion, and other categories of identity. In this course, we will interrogate these categories as socially constructed while acknowledging that these constructions have real effects in subordinating groups, marking bodies, and creating structural, intersectional inequalities.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GSWS 123-1 Introduction to Visual & Cultural Studies Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Morey Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
29 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: AHST 100-1 (P), GSWS 123-1
Instructors: Sharon Willis
Description: The aim of this course is two-fold: First, to develop an understanding of the extraordinary variety of ways meaning is produced in visual culture; secondly, to enable students to analyze and describe the social, political and cultural effects of these meanings. By studying examples drawn from contemporary art, film, television, digital culture, and advertising we will learn techniques of analysis developed in response to specific media and also how to cross-pollinate techniques of analysis in order to gain greater understanding of the complexity of our visual world. Grades are based on response papers, class attendance and participation, and a midterm and a final paper. Occasional film screenings will be scheduled as necessary in the course of the semester.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GSWS 155-1 Intro African-American Literature Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Bausch & Lomb Room 315 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: AAAS 156-1, ENGL 116-1 (P), GSWS 155-1
Instructors: Lamia Alafaireet
Description: This course surveys African American literature of various genres—fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography—from the late-nineteenth century to the present. As a class, we will work together to identify persistent themes in African American literature and investigate continuities and evolutions in the ways African American writers have approached those themes across time, space, and literary movements. Along the way, students can expect to learn how to analyze literary texts in terms of both form and content.

While this course is grounded in literature, students will have regular opportunities to place course texts in interdisciplinary contexts, drawing connections to Black Lives Matter, climate justice, critical race theory, etc. Featured authors may include Frederick Douglass, Angelina Weld Grimké, James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, Toni Morrison, and Ross Gay.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GSWS 188-1 Wives, Witches and Wenches: Women in American History Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Gavett Hall Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
55 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: GSWS 188-1, HIST 189-1 (P)
Instructors: Brianna Theobald
Description: This course surveys American history through the words and work of women. Well-known historical events and developments--including but not limited to the Revolutionary War, the abolition of slavery, the Great Depression, and the protest movements of the 1960s--look different when considered from the perspective of women. The course will further examine how social categories such as race, class, sexuality, and religion have shaped women's historical experiences. Broad in chronological scope, this course is not intended to be comprehensive. Rather, we will utilize primary and secondary sources to delve into important historical moments and to explore questions about the practice and politics of studying women's history.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GSWS 190-1 Dances of the Middle East: Folkloric/Bedouin Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1830 1945 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: DANC 190-1 (P), GSWS 190-1
Instructors: Katrina Scott; Dylaina Young
Description: Traditional Folkloric roots of Middle Eastern Dance, focusing on specific Bedouin dance styles of North Africa (Raks Shaabi). Discourse and research will address issues of gender and body image. Improving strength, flexibility and self-awareness of the body, the class work will include meditative movement, dance technique, choreography and improvisation. No prior dance experience necessary.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GSWS 200-2 History of Feminism: Colloquium Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Meliora Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
28 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: GSWS 200-2 (P), GSWS 200W-2, HIST 259-2, HIST 259W-2
Instructors: Brianna Theobald
Description: In this colloquium we will look at the history of international feminism and explore its many faces. We will examine the various factors that have contributed to women’s historically lower status in society; will look at the emergence of women’s rights and feminist movements as well as the distinctions among various feminist theories, and will discuss the relevance of feminism today.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GSWS 200W-2 History of Feminism: Colloquium Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Meliora Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
28 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: GSWS 200-2 (P), GSWS 200W-2, HIST 259-2, HIST 259W-2
Instructors: Brianna Theobald
Description: In this colloquium we will look at the history of international feminism and explore its many faces. We will examine the various factors that have contributed to women’s historically lower status in society; will look at the emergence of women’s rights and feminist movements as well as the distinctions among various feminist theories, and will discuss the relevance of feminism today.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GSWS 206-1 Global Politics of Gender and Health Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1650 1930 Morey Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
22 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: GSWS 206-1 (P), GSWS 406-1, PHLT 206-2
Instructors: Rachel O'Donnell
Description: This interdisciplinary course is an introduction to critical concepts and approaches used to investigate the intersections of gender, health, and illness, particularly in the context of individual lives both locally and transnationally. Special attention will be paid to the historical and contemporary development of medical knowledge and practice, including debates on the roles of health-care consumers and practitioners, as well as global linkages among the health industry, international trade, and health sector reform in the developing world. Emerging issues around the politics of global health include clinical research studies, bodily modification practices, and reproductive justice movements. This is a writing-intensive course and may be counted toward the University of Rochester’s Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies (GSW) major, minor, or cluster.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GSWS 209-1 Psychology of Human Sexuality Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Strong Auditorium Room 011 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
300 		Capacity     
300
Co-Located: GSWS 209-1, PSYC 209-1 (P)
Instructors: Ronald Rogge
Description: Survey course on understanding sexuality. Includes such topics as biological sexual differentiation, gender role, gender-linked social behaviors, reproduction issues, intimacy, and the role of social and personal factors in psychosexual development.

This is a social science course.

Prerequisite: PSYC 101
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GSWS 215-1 LGBTQ Histories and Culture Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1815 2055 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: KaeLyn Rich
Description: This course is a discussion-based learning experience that explores the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgender, and intersex (LGBTQI) history, communities, and identity through theory, pop culture, literature, and intersectional analysis. Topics include the emergence of subcultures and the organized activist movements from the 1920's through today, early sexuality theory and poststructuralist queer theory, and major historical events including the AIDS epidemic and Stonewall Riots. Course will be taught by KaeLyn Rich, Assistant Advocacy Director (Chapters) of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GSWS 218-1 Gender and Disability Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1815 2055 Lattimore Room 540 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Luticha Doucette
Description: Every day we rarely pause to consider how our understanding of what is "normal" influences how we understand the present and how we imagine futures. This course centers the experiences of multiply-marginalized disabled people and introduces students to a transnational framework that considers how our thinking about disability is rooted in settler colonialism, Christian hegemony, capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. From an intersectional, interdisciplinary multimedia perspective students will learn to critically examine the history of Western medicine, law, politics, and culture. This class offers a space in which we approach disabilities, from depression and anxiety to autism to spina bifida, as well as Deaf culture, chronic illnesses, body size, sexual orientation and gender identity, and many other forms of difference as complex sites of social expectations, personal experiences, state interventions, knowledge production, and exuberant life.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GSWS 221-1 Wartime Love: Italian Novels of the Fifties and Sixties Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Genesee Hall Room 323 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: CLTR 228A-1 (P), GSWS 221-1, ITAL 250-1
Instructors: Andrew Korn
Description: The years following the Second World War saw an outpouring of novels in Italy, all attempting to capture the realities of the tumultuous period just passed. In this course, we will explore three of the era's most remarkable works:Giorgio Bassani's The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, Beppe Fenoglio's A Private Affair and Natalia Ginzburg's Family Lexicon.What distinguishes them are the unique lenses through which they recount history, offering glimpses of how love, in particular, becomes entangled in politics and war: in Bassani's story, a town ostracizes an older resident for his relationship with a young man during the rise of Fascism; in Fenoglio's tale, a partisan's memories of his beloved veer him off course during the Resistance; and in Ginzburg's account, a woman relates her antifascist Jewish family's trials and tribulations under dictatorship. To complement the novels, there will be a theoretical component to elaborate the issues of gender, sexuality and relationality. Assignments include: historical, biographical and critical readings, short papers and a final essay. All readings will be in English.
Offered: Spring
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GSWS 222-1 Gender, Sexuality, and Desire in 20th century Chinese Literature Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Frederick Douglass Room 403 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: CHIN 222-1 (P), CLTR 224-1, GSWS 222-1
Instructors: Elizabeth Weber
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: In this course, we will be examining works of literature from China’s late nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries in order to better understand how conceptions, representations, and expressions of gender, sexuality, and desire changed during periods of drastic political and intellectual change. Our readings will include (but not necessarily be limited to) the following areas: risqué literature from the tail end of the Qing dynasty; modernist approaches to gender and heterosexual and same-sex desire in the May Fourth and early Republican periods; the ideological treatment of gender and sexuality during the high socialist period; and the reemergence of literary expressions of desire and gender identity in the post-Mao era and beyond.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GSWS 232-1 Body and Sexuality Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1640 Lattimore Room 540 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: GSWS 232-1 (P), GSWS 232W-1, HIST 284-1, HIST 284W-1
Instructors: Tatyana Bakhmetyeva
Description: This course explores a number of thematic topics in the history and politics of sex, sexuality, and the body. It looks at human bodies as cultural sites that have been constructed, experienced, and regulated in different ways at different times. In this continuous process of redefining and reimagining bodies, sex and sexualities emerge as important strategies that shape, control, and liberate bodies, both cultural and physical, individual and political. The course examines changing sexual behaviors and identities and considers the politics of sex as it moves out of private bedrooms into the realm of political ideologies, discourses, and practices.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GSWS 232W-1 Body and Sexuality Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1640 Lattimore Room 540 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: GSWS 232-1 (P), GSWS 232W-1, HIST 284-1, HIST 284W-1
Instructors: Tatyana Bakhmetyeva
Description: This course explores a number of thematic topics in the history and politics of sex, sexuality, and the body. It looks at human bodies as cultural sites that have been constructed, experienced, and regulated in different ways at different times. In this continuous process of redefining and reimagining bodies, sex and sexualities emerge as important strategies that shape, control, and liberate bodies, both cultural and physical, individual and political. The course examines changing sexual behaviors and identities and considers the politics of sex as it moves out of private bedrooms into the realm of political ideologies, discourses, and practices.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GSWS 233-1 Cltrl Politics Prison Towns Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1400 1640 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: AAAS 200-1, ANTH 233-1 (P), GSWS 233-1, PSCI 225-1, RELC 230-1
Instructors: Kristin Doughty; Joshua Dubler
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Rochester sits in one of the worlds most explicitly carceral landscapes, with more than a dozen state prisons within a 90 min drive. This co-taught course is a collaborative ethnographic research project designed to examine how the presence of prisons in towns around Rochester reflects and shapes the political, economic, and cultural lives of those who live in the region. Students will be introduced to methods and practices of ethnography and conduct firsthand research on the cultural politics of prison towns. Through assigned reading, students will learn about the history, sociology, and cultural logics of Rochester and the wider region, and of mass incarceration. What does a prison mean for a person living near one? How does the presence of prisons shape peoples notions of justice, citizenship, and punishment? How do these nearby but largely invisible institutions shape the ways that we live in Rochester? Recommended prior courses: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology or Incarceration Nation
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GSWS 236-1 Energy and Power Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Meliora Room 218 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: AAAS 221-1, ANTH 243-1 (P), EHUM 243-1, GSWS 236-1
Instructors: Kristin Doughty
Description: Does it matter where our power comes from? Why or how and to whom? This course uses anthropological case studies of different kinds of energy sources (fossil fuels, nuclear, water, solar, wind) and different kinds of electrification (centralized grids versus micro-grids) around the world to think about the relationship between energy, environments, power, and culture with a specific focus on intersectional gender and sexuality. How do energy practices and cultural norms of racialized gender shape each other in various places around the world, and to what effects? What might empirical attention to how people talk about and use energy help us to understand about the energy transitions and climate crises of the 21st century?
Offered: Fall Spring
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GSWS 237-1 Revolutions and Revolt Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: CLTR 238A-1 (P), CLTR 438A-1, GRMN 238-1, GRMN 438-1, GSWS 237-1, JWST 243-1
Instructors: Lisa Cerami
Description: Revolutions and Revolt is an experimental course that examines 20th century German cultural history. We will explore questions of social justice, representation, and political expression clustered around three major revolutionary moments: the German Revolution of 1918, the German Student Movement of 1968, and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Our course will be oriented by a careful reading of Marx and Engle's Communist Manifesto, that, while also defining the conditions of possibility for an empowered proletarian class, can also be used a tool to reflect on the revolutionary features of language, poetry, and art. We will think about specific genres – the manifesto, the pamphlet, political theater, and film, as genres that calls or could call "revolution" into being. These historical hinge points (a term I am borrowing from Matt Christman) bring various emancipatory impulses into relief, beyond the history of class conflict described in the Communist Manifesto, and we will engage with pacificist, anti-fascist, feminist, and Jewish texts and artworks. This course is conducted in English, and our readings are English translations of German texts, but if students of German would like to work on original texts, these can be provided along with alternative assignments where German language practice might be implemented.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GSWS 240-1 On the Move: Ethnographic Films Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Morey Room 501 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CLTR 248-1 (P), FMST 230-1, GRMN 248-1, GSWS 240-1
Instructors: June Hwang
Description: This course will explore various concepts of mobility and encounters within ethnographic films and texts. Questions we will investigate include: How does one represent a culture? What notions of race, gender, sexuality and national identities are reinforced and challenged in these works? Who speaks for whom and what are the consequences? What kinds of power relationships are hidden or made visible in these films and texts?
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GSWS 241-1 Music, Ethnography & HIV/Aids Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 540 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: AAAS 222-1, ANTH 240-1, GSWS 241-1, MUSC 236-1 (P), MUSC 436-1, PHLT 227-1
Instructors: Jennifer Kyker
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Addressing the devastating effects of HIV/AIDS in the United States, United Kingdom, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Haiti, and elsewhere, this uniquely interdisciplinary course will incorporate insights from the fields of public health, medical anthropology, and ethnomusicology. Studying the HIV/AIDS epidemic through the lens of musical expression, we will ask how individuals and communities affected by HIV/AIDS have mobilized musical sound in response to the disease. Topics addressed within the class will include musical representations of HIV/AIDS within queer communities; the use of music in public health campaigns to raise awareness about the disease; and the mobilization of musical performance within grassroots support groups for individuals affected by HIV/AIDS.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GSWS 274-1 Consent in Performance: Me too...where do we go from here? Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 940 1055 Todd Union Room 107 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: DANC 276-1, ENGL 279-1 (P), GSWS 274-1, OP 280-1
Instructors: Sara Penner
Description:
“United States law says “Consent and agency over one’s body is a given in the work space.”  How, then, can the performance workspace acknowledge and honor our boundaries, while nurturing us to risk, grow, and create our truest, bravest work?   How can we as artists learn strategies to poetize the uncomfortable while honoring our boundaries?  In this course, we study the history and evolution of consent in performance, allowing students to learn about personal agency, self-advocacy, and how to foster and navigate healthy collaboration across disciplines. The class will give young artists the space to discover and articulate their boundaries through a variety of group exercises and opportunities for self-reflection.  Lectures will cover intimacy direction and rehearsal tools, discussions and guest lecturers on gender and feminist theory in relation to performance art, theatre, film and dance.  This course is a must for artistic collaborators from directors & choreographers, to actors, musicians, technicians, and performance artists!”
Offered: Spring
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GSWS 282-1 Si el Norte fuera el Sur: Latinx Literature and Thought Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Lechase Room 103 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AAAS 208-1, GSWS 282-1, SPAN 282-1 (P), SPAN 482-1
Instructors: Vialcary Crisostomo
Description: How is Latinx identity expressed? What historical events have marked its social and cultural

articulation? These questions will guide the work of this course, as we discuss the historical and contemporary discourses that have shaped the lives and sociopolitical agency of Latinxs in the United States. Departing from the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s mission of Shifting the Geography of Reason, we will explore the tensions and dynamics involved in Latinx author’s thought and cultural productions. Through the analysis of literary and philosophical texts, as well as historical data and policies, we will examine projects and practices that work towards the decolonization of Power, Being and Knowledge.  Course offered in English. May be taken for Spanish credit (if writing assignments done in Spanish; prerequisite for Spanish enrollment is SPAN 200)

Readings may include works by Gloria Anzaldua, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Valeria Luiselli, Eduardo Halfon, Elizabeth Acevedo, Gabby Rivera, María Lugones
Offered: Fall Spring
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GSWS 283-1 Orality, Language & Literacy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Morey Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: ENGL 284-1 (P), ENGL 484-1, GSWS 283-1
Instructors: David Bleich
Description: We consider issues raised in Walter Ong's '82 study, "Orality & Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word." His account related the growth of writing & print to the development of science & modern rational thought, exploring possible changes in collective consciousness as a result of the shift of media emphasis. We'll examine classical sources, including Plato's suspicion of the power of oral poetry, & consider levels of literacy achieved in ancient society; we'll look at European medieval traditions. Discussions on the roles language & literature played in the lives of non-literate people as contrasted with literate. Study of the modern & contemporary periods focuses on practices as conversation, becoming literate, collection of oral accounts & their uses, uses of ethnographic writing, & different approaches to speech, writing, & language in African American & white communities. Key aim of the course is to show the politics, mutual dependency, & reciprocity of oral/literate uses of language in literary/nonliterary.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GSWS 286-1 Contemporary Women's Writing Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Lattimore Room 431 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: ENGL 248-1 (P), ENGL 448-1, GSWS 286-1
Instructors: Bette London
Description: In recent years, we have seen a virtual explosion of writing by women, with women’s novels constituting some of the most widely read and critically admired work being produced today. The global reach of both its authors and audiences has made contemporary women’s writing a truly international phenomenon. We will examine what makes this work especially innovative: its experimentation with new voices and narrative forms and its blurring of genre boundaries. We will look at the dialogue it has established with the past, where it often finds its inspiration, self-consciously appropriating earlier literary texts or rewriting history. We will also consider what special challenges this work poses for its readers. Looking at works originating in a wide range of locations, this course, will explore the diverse shapes of contemporary women's imagination and attempt to account for the compelling interest of this new body of fiction.
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GSWS 392-1 Practicum in Women's Studies Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
0
Description: Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GSWS 393-1 Major Senior Seminar Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Lattimore Room 540 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: GSWS 393-1 (P), GSWS 393H-1
Instructors: Tatyana Bakhmetyeva
Description: This course is for students completing a GSWS thesis in their final semester. Since this is a small group, our meeting day and time may be flexible dependent on student schedules. This course is primarily taken by GSWS majors, but is open to students who wish to complete rigorous research in GSWS as well. Contact Tanya Bakhmetyeva with questions.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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GSWS 393H-1 Major Senior Seminar - Honors Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: GSWS 393-1 (P), GSWS 393H-1
Instructors: Tatyana Bakhmetyeva
Description: For students completing a GSWS Honors thesis in the final semester of their senior year. Students will complete their final GSWS honors projects started in the previous semester. Since this is a small group, our meeting day and time may be flexible dependent on student schedules. This course is primarily taken by GSWS majors, but is open to students who wish to complete rigorous research in GSWS as well. Contact Tanya Bakhmetyeva with questions.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Religion & Classics - Hebrew
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
HBRW 102-1 Elementary Modern Hebrew II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Rush Rhees Library Room 442 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: HBRW 102-1 (P), JWST 102-1
Instructors: Michela Andreatta
Description: Come learn the language of the Hebrew Bible and of sleepless Tel Aviv nights! One of the oldest languages in the world, for several centuries Hebrew was used only as a literary tool until it was revived as a national Jewish language starting in the late 19th century. Today, Hebrew is the official language of Israel and is studied and spoken by Jews and non-Jews all around the world. Used in everyday life, songs, films, and on the Internet, Hebrew has never been so young!

This course is the direct continuation of HBRW 101 that is taught in the Fall. Emphasis is on further developing reading, writing, comprehension, and speaking skills, with a focus on cultural orientation and the practical use of Hebrew in meaningful everyday situations. During the semester, students will expand the basic language skills acquired in HBRW 101, enhance their understanding of Hebrew grammar constructions (in particular, verbs in the present and past tense, use of direct object and prepositional verbs, common syntactical constructions), and increase their vocabulary. The course will cover the textbook Hebrew from Scratch vol. 1 from Lesson 3 through Lesson 17, and will be supplemented by additional written, audio, and video materials in Hebrew.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HBRW 104-1 Intermediate Modern Hebrew II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1815 1930 Rush Rhees Library Room 428D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: HBRW 104-1 (P), JWST 104-1
Instructors: Ami Weisberger
Description: Welcome to your second year of modern Hebrew! By completion of this second semester of Hebrew at the intermediate level, you will further expand speech interaction in free and authentic informal Hebrew in a variety of everyday situations. Your understanding and use of grammar constructions (in particular, of the verb system) will be enhanced and your vocabulary dramatically increased. You will also develop reading skills enabling you to approach texts written in a higher and more formal style than the one used in speaking and be able to effectively use a Hebrew-English-Hebrew dictionary. The course will continue covering the second volume of the textbook Hebrew from Scratch and will be supplemented by additional written, audio, and video materials in Hebrew.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering History
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
HIST 104-1 Ancient Cities of the Mediterranean Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lechase Room 160 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
14
Co-Located: AHST 199-1, CLST 131-1 (P), HIST 104-1
Instructors: Elizabeth Colantoni
Description: This course examines the phenomenon of urbanism in the ancient Mediterranean world. After a brief consideration of the rise of cities in western Asia and Egypt, the course focuses on the cities and colonies of ancient Greece and of the Roman Empire, with special attention devoted to Athens and Rome. Topics covered include town planning, public and private spaces and building types, urban life, and colonization, as seen through the archaeological remains of cities located around the Mediterranean basin and beyond.  There are no prerequisites for this course.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 112-1 Incarceration Nation Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1025 1115 Bausch & Lomb Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
88 		Capacity     
90
Co-Located: AAAS 183-1, HIST 112-1, PSCI 224-1, RELC 183-1 (P)
Instructors: Joshua Dubler
Description: How does a country with five percent of the world's population, a country that nominally values freedom above all else, come to have nearly a quarter of the world's incarcerated people? In this survey course we investigate the history of imprisonment in the United States--as theorized and as practiced--from the founding of the republic to the present day. Special attention is paid to the politics, economics, race politics, and religious logics of contemporary mass incarceration, and to the efforts afoot to end mass incarceration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 117-1 Archaeological Thought Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1000 1245 Rush Rhees Library Room 442 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AHST 140-1, ATHS 210-1 (P), CLST 134-1, HIST 117-1
Instructors: Stefanie Bautista San Miguel
Description: How did archaeology come to be the way it is now? This course will survey some of the major theoretical trends that have shaped anthropological archaeology. More specifically, students will learn how anthropological theory has influenced the interpretive frameworks and epistemologies of archaeological inference. We will spend half of the semester focusing on early archaeological theory, and the second half on topics and theories that are now central in archaeology. By the end of this course, students should be able to define and identify the major theories in archaeology that include culture-history, processualism, post-processualism, middle-range theory, Marxism, agency, identity, feminist, community, and indigenous archaeology.
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 134-1 Russia Now Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
19
Co-Located: HIST 134-1, RSST 126-1 (P), RSST 127-1, RUSS 126-1, RUSS 127-1
Instructors: Nikita Maslennikov
Description: In this expanded 4-credit version of the 2-credit 'Russia Now' course, students will follow current events in Russia through print and electronic sources, and write two short essays and one longer research paper.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 151-1 Modern Latin America Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Morey Room 501 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: CLTR 151-1, HIST 151-1 (P)
Instructors: Molly Ball
Description:

This introductory course will cover the difficult process of nation-building that twenty-odd societies south of the Rio Grande experienced during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By the end of the course, students should be able to understand most references in Calle 13's song "Latinoamerica." Latin America became a space where questions of modernity and progress intersected with science and development. Foreign influence, intellectual, physical, and commercial, played a considerable role and many voices continued to be marginalized. As the twentieth century progressed, development strategies, shifting racial and gender norms, and the Cold War radically impacted the region's more modern history. We will explore these moments through a variety of traditional and less conventional primary and secondary sources. 
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 171-1 African-American History II since 1900 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Genesee Hall Room 309 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: AAAS 142-1, HIST 171-1 (P)
Instructors: Nicholas Bloom
Description: This course will present an introductory survey of the history of African American life from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. We will focus largely on African American history in North America and the United States, but we will consider this history in the broader context of Black diasporic and Atlantic world history during this time period. The course will cover US Reconstruction’s rise and fall, the rise and fall of the Jim Crow regime, and the period of time bookended by the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Lives Matter uprisings of the past decade. We will focus especially on the question of Black self-determination: how Black American communities and individuals have historically defined and sought to achieve self-determination; how these definitions and struggles have both shaped and been shaped by the dominant political, economic, and social structures of the United States; and how these definitions and struggles have changed over time. The course will pay particular attention to the political, social, and cultural movements that defined these eras, and how these various movements challenged, contradicted, and/or shaped one another. We will focus especially on the ways that gender, class, sexuality, and nationalism shaped these movements. 
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 176-2 History of Judaism Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Rush Rhees Library Room 442 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: HIST 176-2, JWST 113-2 (P), RELC 103-2
Instructors: Emma Brodeur
Description: This course is an introduction to Jewish religion and culture from ancient to modern times. Designed for students with little or no prior knowledge of Judaism, it will examine the formation, ruptures, and changes of Jewish tradition, identity, and culture beginning with the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible), continuing through Rabbinic interpretations of law and lore, medieval Jewish thought, early modern Jewish mysticism, the Enlightenment and modern Jewish philosophy, up to contemporary American Jewish feminism. Because this course explores a large swath of the history of Judaism, its peoples, and ideas in various geographic contexts, we will continually question the claim that there exists a single, static, essential entity called “Judaism.” Paying close attention to changes in Jewish religious and cultural self-understanding and traditions across primary and secondary texts, we will instead investigate the possibility that there were and are multiple “Judaisms” just as there were and are multiple “Jews” living in different cultural, religious, and geographic settings throughout time.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 178-1 Histories of Indigenous Women Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Hylan Building Room 306 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Justin Grossman
Description: This course explores Native American histories of women, gender, and sexuality from the foundation of these societies to the present day. This includes how various Native American cultures dealt with and adapted their views of these concepts in response to colonization. It also looks at how European/American settlers used gendered and sexualized notions of Native people to marginalize them in speeches, performances, and films including Disney’s Peter Pan and Pocahontas. The main goal of the course is to understand how different Native communities created their own understandings of gender and sexuality and how Native women defined their role in an ever-changing world. To do this, we will examine histories produced from a Native perspective ranging from oral histories to modern documentaries. Due to the overwhelming diversity within Native America, this course is not comprehensive. Rather, it draws examples from across North America to consider patterns within these varied histories.
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 179-1 Rochester and Western New York Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1815 1930 Meliora Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
94 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Morris Pierce
Description: Rochester’s history began long before the first permanent settlement in 1812 and was marked by a long and violent conflict between native peoples, the French and the British.   Wheat harvested in the Genesee Valley was ground into flour using the power of the Genesee River as it dropped 260 feet to Lake Ontario.   Transporting flour and other goods to New York City and other markets was difficult until the Erie Canal was completed in 1825.  The canal enabled an enormous migration of settlers moving west, and many chose to stay in Rochester.  The village became a city in 1834 with a vibrant and expanding mix of cultures that joined together to make Rochester a vibrant commercial and manufacturing center.  The Western Union Telegraph Company traces its roots to Rochester in 1851 and in 1853 eight local New York railroads merged to form the New York Central, whose tracks ran parallel to the Erie Canal.   In 1881 a local bank clerk, George Eastman, quit his job to devote his full attention to the business of photography and founded the Eastman Kodak Company.  The Haloid Photographic Company was founded in Rochester in 1906 and entered into an agreement with inventor Chester Carlson in 1946 that resulted in the introduction of the Xerox 914 plain paper copy machine in 1959 was adopted around the world.   Nevertheless, Rochester’s most famous residents are likely Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, who were instrumental in the struggle to expand civil rights to all Americans.  The local community, however, struggled to welcome the large numbers of African Americans who moved to Rochester after World War II.  Housing discrimination, white flight to the suburbs, and riots marked the 1960s, and the city today has one of the highest rates of child poverty in the country.  Nevertheless, the city has vibrant cultural and educational institutions that continue to attract talented newcomers.  In short, the history of Rochester has a bit of everything and students in the course are encouraged to study the entire experience of the community, including topics that may be new and frankly uncomfortable. 
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 189-1 Wives, Witches, and Wenches: Women in American History Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Gavett Hall Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
55 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: GSWS 188-1, HIST 189-1 (P)
Instructors: Brianna Theobald
Description: This course surveys American history through the words and work of women. Well-known historical events and developments--including but not limited to the Revolutionary War, the abolition of slavery, the Great Depression, and the protest movements of the 1960s--look different when considered from the perspective of women. The course will further examine how social categories such as race, class, sexuality, and religion have shaped women's historical experiences. Broad in chronological scope, this course is not intended to be comprehensive. Rather, we will utilize primary and secondary sources to delve into important historical moments and to explore questions about the practice and politics of studying women's history.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 195-1 Premodern Japan Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Morey Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Michael Hayata
Description: This course surveys the history of Japan from ancient times to the nineteenth century.  From the Genpei War to the Kenmu Restoration, Japanese society underwent significant transformation as the imperial court, aristocracy, Buddhist establishments, and warrior class endeavored to recreate the archipelago in their own vision.  Students will analyze a variety of primary and secondary sources – including literature, poetry, visual arts, and urban planning – to understand the currents that facilitated such change.  The first part of the course examines imperial state formation and the creation of Buddhist and aristocratic cultures in the Nara and Heian courts. The second part examines the rise of the warrior class and maritime trade under the Kamakura shogunate. Finally, the third part focuses on the structural dynamics that shaped the rise and fall of the Ashikaga and Tokugawa shogunates.
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 200-1 Gateway: Japanese Empire and its Afterlife Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Rush Rhees Library Room 456 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Michael Hayata
Description: The Japanese empire mediated large parts of East Asia and the global capitalist economy during the first half of the twentieth century.  This course examines major themes that are relevant to the study of Japanese imperialism in Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, including industrialization, agrarian colonization, popular culture, resistance, and wartime mobilization.  It will prepare students to conduct original historical research by training them to develop their own historical questions, gather and analyze evidence, create original conclusions, and contribute to ongoing discussions.  They will write a research paper on a topic of their choice in consultation with the instructor.
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 200-2 Gateway: Mexico Through Time Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Rush Rhees Library Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
19
Instructors: Pablo Sierra
Description: This course explores the techniques, methods and sources that historians of Mexico use to understand the prehispanic and colonial past. Our focus on migration, freedom, and enslavement will enable us to study a wide range of historical memories, beginning with pictographic codices that recount the migration story of the Mexica settlers of Tenochtitlán (modern-day Mexico City). We will then delve into the documents produced by (and about) Indigenous noble women, Iberian conquistadors, African maroons and mestizo merchants in colonial Mexico. Seminar discussions will allow us to debate the possibilities, limitations and biases built into colonial sources. Students will develop their own research paper at the end of the semester. No prior knowledge of Latin America is required. Course fulfills the pre-1800 requirement for the History major.
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 208-1 Modern Revolutions - France, Japan, Mexico, Russia Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
44 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: HIST 208-1 (P), HIST 208W-1
Instructors: Matthew Lenoe
Description: In this class we will compare the French Revolution (1789-1815), the Japanese Meiji Revolution (usually called in English 'the Restoration') of 1868-1890, the Mexican Revolution (1910-1924), and the Russian Revolution (1917-1937). We will examine such questions as: To what extent did particular social groups drive each of these revolutions? To what extent did each of these revolutions begin with a simple collapse of the state? Were new ideologies/ideas important in bringing on each revolution? How important were efforts 'from below' and 'from above' ( i.e. by established elites and/or new state apparatuses) in determining the outcome of each revolution? Do modern revolutions tend to follow a common course, as Crane Brinton has argued, or are they 'sui generis'?
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 208W-1 Modern Revolutions - France, Japan, Mexico, Russia Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
44 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: HIST 208-1 (P), HIST 208W-1
Instructors: Matthew Lenoe
Description: In this class we will compare the French Revolution (1789-1815), the Japanese Meiji Revolution (usually called in English 'the Restoration') of 1868-1890, the Mexican Revolution (1910-1924), and the Russian Revolution (1917-1937). We will examine such questions as: To what extent did particular social groups drive each of these revolutions? To what extent did each of these revolutions begin with a simple collapse of the state? Were new ideologies/ideas important in bringing on each revolution? How important were efforts 'from below' and 'from above' ( i.e. by established elites and/or new state apparatuses) in determining the outcome of each revolution? Do modern revolutions tend to follow a common course, as Crane Brinton has argued, or are they 'sui generis'?
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 210-1 Africa Welcomes China in a New Global Economy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Frederick Douglass Room 404 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: HIST 210-1 (P), HIST 210W-1
Instructors: Elias Mandala
Description: Africa’s engagement with China has to be read as a two-sided story: China has found in Africa a reliable supplier of natural resources while Africans look to China for aid and investments in agriculture, industry, infrastructure, and education. And, in a significant departure from the colonial model of economic interactions, Chinese companies do not only ship finished products to Africa; they also manufacture in Africa goods for internal use and for export. The impact of these multifaceted relations will not be decided in Beijing alone, as many assume in the West; the outcome will also depend on the decisions taken in African capitals.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 210W-1 Africa Welcomes China in a New Global Economy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Frederick Douglass Room 404 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: HIST 210-1 (P), HIST 210W-1
Instructors: Elias Mandala
Description: Africa’s engagement with China has to be read as a two-sided story: China has found in Africa a reliable supplier of natural resources while Africans look to China for aid and investments in agriculture, industry, infrastructure, and education. And, in a significant departure from the colonial model of economic interactions, Chinese companies do not only ship finished products to Africa; they also manufacture in Africa goods for internal use and for export. The impact of these multifaceted relations will not be decided in Beijing alone, as many assume in the West; the outcome will also depend on the decisions taken in African capitals.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 220-1 Art History and Ethnoarchaeology of West Africa Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 413 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AHST 232-1, ANTH 296-1, ATHS 212-1 (P), HIST 220-1
Instructors: William Gblerkpor
Description: This course explores how climate change is causing the loss and damage of cultural heritage sites across Africa. It examines the continent’s cultural landscape heritage and assesses threats and impacts of rising temperatures, wetter climates, rising sea levels, and human migration on the survival and futures of Africa’s past. Africa’s long history of humankind and the peoples encounters with other cultures of the world, have created and shaped a rich and diverse cultural heritage that needs safeguarding
Offered: Fall
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HIST 221-1 Medieval Crusades: Conflicts Across Cultures Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Frederick Douglass Room 403 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: John Burden
Description: The edges of medieval Europe were a melting pot of peoples, cultures, and religions. Using Christian, Muslim, and Jewish sources, this course will examine how complex forces enabled co-existence and cooperation but also conflict. We will focus especially on the military expeditions known as the Crusades which occurred between about 1100 and 1300. Were the Crusades holy wars motivated by religion? Proto-colonial enterprises? Or personal pursuits of martial and dynastic glory? Alongside these questions, we will investigate how the memory of the Crusades survives in modern culture and politics.
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 226-1 Exploration, Science, and Adventure Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Rush Rhees Library Room 456 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: HIST 226-1 (P), HIST 226W-1
Instructors: Stewart Weaver
Description: This course is a general introduction to the intersecting histories of exploration, science, and adventure from the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to the present. After a preliminary look at the idea of "exploration," what it means, and what distinguishes it from mere travel and/or adventure, we will focus each week on a discreet episode of scientific exploration, beginning with the epochal Pacific voyages of Captain James Cook and concluding with the Apollo missions to the moon. Other notable cases will include the South American travels of Alexander von Humboldt, the transcontinental journey of Lewis and Clark, Robert Scott's fateful journey to the South Pole, and early scientific exploration and mountaineering in the Himalaya. Our emphasis throughout will be on the complex relation between exploration and science, and on the ways in which exploration has shaped for good and ill our modern, globally interconnected world. 
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 226W-1 Exploration, Science, and Adventure Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Rush Rhees Library Room 456 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: HIST 226-1 (P), HIST 226W-1
Instructors: Stewart Weaver
Description: This course is a general introduction to the intersecting histories of exploration, science, and adventure from the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to the present. After a preliminary look at the idea of "exploration," what it means, and what distinguishes it from mere travel and/or adventure, we will focus each week on a discreet episode of scientific exploration, beginning with the epochal Pacific voyages of Captain James Cook and concluding with the Apollo missions to the moon. Other notable cases will include the South American travels of Alexander von Humboldt, the transcontinental journey of Lewis and Clark, Robert Scott's fateful journey to the South Pole, and early scientific exploration and mountaineering in the Himalaya. Our emphasis throughout will be on the complex relation between exploration and science, and on the ways in which exploration has shaped for good and ill our modern, globally interconnected world. 
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 228-1 North Africa and the Middle East since 1838 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Hylan Building Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: AAAS 201-1, HIST 228-1 (P), HIST 228W-1
Instructors: Elias Mandala
Description: North Africa and the Middle East is in a mess: Instead of democracy, the Arab Spring delivered a military dictatorship to Egypt; Iraq and Syria are melting into warring tribal enclaves; Saudi Arabia is waging a savage war in Yemen; and the Palestinians remain an unprotected stateless people. There is a crisis, and this course introduces students to the predicament, arguing that since the first Industrial Revolution in England, the peoples of North Africa and the Middle East have refashioned their destinies in partnership with the West. Students will examine how the following encounters helped make the region as we know it: the Anglo-Turkish Convention of 1838, transition from Ottoman to West European colonialism, discovery of huge and easily extractable oil reserves, creation of the state of Israel, the Iranian Revolution of 1979, and the US Invasion of Iraq in 2003. The class will also explore how the above patterns of engagement shaped the histories of the region's working classes, women, and the peasantry.
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 228W-1 North Africa and the Middle East since 1838 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Hylan Building Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: AAAS 201-1, HIST 228-1 (P), HIST 228W-1
Instructors: Elias Mandala
Description: North Africa and the Middle East is in a mess: Instead of democracy, the Arab Spring delivered a military dictatorship to Egypt; Iraq and Syria are melting into warring tribal enclaves; Saudi Arabia is waging a savage war in Yemen; and the Palestinians remain an unprotected stateless people. There is a crisis, and this course introduces students to the predicament, arguing that since the first Industrial Revolution in England, the peoples of North Africa and the Middle East have refashioned their destinies in partnership with the West. Students will examine how the following encounters helped make the region as we know it: the Anglo-Turkish Convention of 1838, transition from Ottoman to West European colonialism, discovery of huge and easily extractable oil reserves, creation of the state of Israel, the Iranian Revolution of 1979, and the US Invasion of Iraq in 2003. The class will also explore how the above patterns of engagement shaped the histories of the region's working classes, women, and the peasantry.
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 230-1 Old English Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Frederick Douglass Room 302 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 201-1 (P), ENGL 401-1, HIST 230-1, LING 207-1, LING 407-1
Instructors: Steven Rozenski
Description: At the end of the 5th century, after Roman occupation of Britain had ended, invaders from coastal Germany and the Netherlands settled in England and displaced the  Celtic-speaking population. The language these tribes spoke and wrote gives us the oldest witnesses of perhaps the most influential and widely-spoken language in the world today: English. In this class, we will learn to read the earliest records of English (c. 700-1100) by studying the grammar, vocabulary, and poetics of the period. We will explore the variety of surviving Old English texts - elegies, heroic epic, riddles, religious verse, Latin philosophy (translated in prose and verse), Biblical translation, sermons, charms, maxims, and more - as well as the history of book production during the period. By the end of the term, your new facility in Old English will enable you to read, understand, and translate some of the most beautiful poems ever written. No prerequisites for the course; as pre-1800 as you can get. 
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 232-1 Modern France: Revolution, Reaction, and Reform Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Bausch & Lomb Room 315 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: FREN 252-1, HIST 232-1 (P), HIST 232W-1
Instructors: Jean Pedersen
Description: Alternately friends and rivals, modern France and the United States have had a complicated relationship ever since both nations were born in revolution at the end of the eighteenth century. This course will seek to understand France on its own terms by considering a series of formative events such as the Revolution of 1848, the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, the Dreyfus Affair and the birth of the intellectual, the very different experiences of World Wars I and II, the post-colonial conflicts in Algeria and Vietnam, the near-revolution of May 1968, and contemporary arguments over French foreign and domestic policy.
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 232W-1 Modern France: Revolution, Reaction, and Reform Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Bausch & Lomb Room 315 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: FREN 252-1, HIST 232-1 (P), HIST 232W-1
Instructors: Jean Pedersen
Description: Alternately friends and rivals, modern France and the United States have had a complicated relationship ever since both nations were born in revolution at the end of the eighteenth century. This course will seek to understand France on its own terms by considering a series of formative events such as the Revolution of 1848, the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, the Dreyfus Affair and the birth of the intellectual, the very different experiences of World Wars I and II, the post-colonial conflicts in Algeria and Vietnam, the near-revolution of May 1968, and contemporary arguments over French foreign and domestic policy.
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 252-1 Immigration and the Americas Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: HIST 252-1 (P), HIST 252W-1, HIST 453-1
Instructors: Molly Ball
Description: The United States received the largest number of immigrants in the western hemisphere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but immigrants’ relative impact in Latin American countries like Brazil and Argentina was arguably more substantial. This course explores the complex events, trends and personal considerations affecting migrants' decisions and experiences. In exploring the movement of Italians, Japanese, Mexicans, and other groups to and within the Americas, we will seek to understand their movements as a function of three essential questions: why do people migrate; who migrates; and how do they choose where they migrate? The course will incorporate a variety of materials including interviews, memoirs, monographs, and demographic studies. Students will also discover Rochester’s own rich immigrant history. Graduate students will develop an extended exploration into the dynamics of internal migration and immigration over the course of the semester.
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 252W-1 Immigration and the Americas Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: HIST 252-1 (P), HIST 252W-1, HIST 453-1
Instructors: Molly Ball
Description: The United States received the largest number of immigrants in the western hemisphere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but immigrants’ relative impact in Latin American countries like Brazil and Argentina was arguably more substantial. This course explores the complex events, trends and personal considerations affecting migrants' decisions and experiences. In exploring the movement of Italians, Japanese, Mexicans, and other groups to and within the Americas, we will seek to understand their movements as a function of three essential questions: why do people migrate; who migrates; and how do they choose where they migrate? The course will incorporate a variety of materials including interviews, memoirs, monographs, and demographic studies. Students will also discover Rochester’s own rich immigrant history. Graduate students will develop an extended exploration into the dynamics of internal migration and immigration over the course of the semester.
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 259-2 History of Feminism: Colloquium Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Meliora Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
28 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: GSWS 200-2 (P), GSWS 200W-2, HIST 259-2, HIST 259W-2
Instructors: Brianna Theobald
Description: In this colloquium we will look at the history of international feminism and explore its many faces. We will examine the various factors that have contributed to womens historically lower status in society; will look at the emergence of womens rights and feminist movements as well as the distinctions among various feminist theories, and will discuss the relevance of feminism today.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 259W-2 History of Feminism: Colloquium Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Meliora Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
28 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: GSWS 200-2 (P), GSWS 200W-2, HIST 259-2, HIST 259W-2
Instructors: Brianna Theobald
Description: In this colloquium we will look at the history of international feminism and explore its many faces. We will examine the various factors that have contributed to womens historically lower status in society; will look at the emergence of womens rights and feminist movements as well as the distinctions among various feminist theories, and will discuss the relevance of feminism today.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 264-1 The Idea of America Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Lechase Room 121 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AAAS 211-1, AMST 200-1 (P), ENGL 242-2, ENGL 429-1, HIST 264-1
Instructors: John Michael
Description: WHAT IS AMERICA? A country? A continent? A political ideal? A culture? This course traces the development of ideas about America, from its historical beginnings to our own time, from European fantasies about the New World and its possibilities to the experiences of settlers and citizens facing its realities. We will explore the competing and even contending narratives of America in a wide variety of cultural documents, from orations, sermons and political tracts to novels, poems, photographs, and films. The course is open to all interested students and required for all American Studies majors.
Offered: Spring
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HIST 268-2 Popular Music and the 20th Century US Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Lechase Room 143 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: HIST 268-2 (P), HIST 268W-2
Instructors: Nicholas Bloom
Description: This course will use popular music as a lens through which to explore some of the major issues and events of twentieth-century US history. The course will move chronologically, and it will cover many of the major forms, movements, and artists integral to the history of popular music in the twentieth-century US. However, the purpose of the course is not to present a survey history of US popular music. Rather, we will study some of the key themes and ruptures in US social, economic, and political life in the twentieth century via close examinations of a limited number of specific styles, events, and prominent figures from this time period. How popular music both reflected and shaped relations of race, class, gender, sexuality, nationalism, and militarism in the United States will constitute the principle intellectual inquiry of the course.  Particular musical movements and styles that may receive particularly close attention include blues, vaudeville, jazz, “folk” music, rock and roll, country music, soul, disco, reggae, and hip-hop. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 268A-1 American Renaissance Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Morey Room 303 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: AAAS 256-1, ENGL 225-1 (P), ENGL 425-1, HIST 268A-1
Instructors: John Michael
Description: We will investigate the peculiar quality of romanticism and the particular achievements of romantic writers in the United States during the period before the Civil War. Three capacious topics will organize discussions: nature and art, society and history, and individuals and communities. As part of each of these topics, we will also consider the pressures and controversies around slavery, race, and gender that were dividing the States in the decades before the Civil War.  We will read works by Cooper, Childs, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Melville, Poe, Douglass, Jacobs, Hawthorne, Stowe, Whitman, Lincoln, Dickinson, and others. Of particular interest throughout the term will be the hopes and anxieties, allegiances and resistances, aesthetic triumphs and political frustrations that characters American romantic artists and have made the imagination a crucial part of the nation's life and an indispensable resource for its people even at moments when fundamental conflicts threatened to end the nation altogether.
Offered: Spring
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HIST 268W-2 Popular Music and the 20th Century US Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Lechase Room 143 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: HIST 268-2 (P), HIST 268W-2
Instructors: Nicholas Bloom
Description: This course will use popular music as a lens through which to explore some of the major issues and events of twentieth-century US history. The course will move chronologically, and it will cover many of the major forms, movements, and artists integral to the history of popular music in the twentieth-century US. However, the purpose of the course is not to present a survey history of US popular music. Rather, we will study some of the key themes and ruptures in US social, economic, and political life in the twentieth century via close examinations of a limited number of specific styles, events, and prominent figures from this time period. How popular music both reflected and shaped relations of race, class, gender, sexuality, nationalism, and militarism in the United States will constitute the principle intellectual inquiry of the course.  Particular musical movements and styles that may receive particularly close attention include blues, vaudeville, jazz, “folk” music, rock and roll, country music, soul, disco, reggae, and hip-hop. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 280-1 Historical Archaeology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Rush Rhees Library Room 456 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ATHS 240-1, HIST 280-1 (P), HIST 280W-1, HIST 497-1
Instructors: Michael Jarvis
Description: This course introduces students to historical archaeology and uses archaeological sites, material culture, and architecture to investigate European colonization of the Americas. Topics include Euro-Indian contact, the transfer of European and African cultures to American shores, creolization and the emergence of distinctly American traditions, Atlantic connections, and how non-documentary sources help us understand the lives of African-Americans, Indians, and white settlers. SPRING 2023: Students will have the option of a Spring Break field excavation experience in Bermuda, March 4-12.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 280W-1 Historical Archaeology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Rush Rhees Library Room 456 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ATHS 240-1, HIST 280-1 (P), HIST 280W-1, HIST 497-1
Instructors: Michael Jarvis
Description: This course introduces students to historical archaeology and uses archaeological sites, material culture, and architecture to investigate European colonization of the Americas. Topics include Euro-Indian contact, the transfer of European and African cultures to American shores, creolization and the emergence of distinctly American traditions, Atlantic connections, and how non-documentary sources help us understand the lives of African-Americans, Indians, and white settlers. SPRING 2023: Students will have the option of a Spring Break field excavation experience in Bermuda, March 4-12.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 284-1 Body and Sexuality Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1640 Lattimore Room 540 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: GSWS 232-1 (P), GSWS 232W-1, HIST 284-1, HIST 284W-1
Instructors: Tatyana Bakhmetyeva
Description: This course explores a number of thematic topics in the history and politics of sex, sexuality, and the body. It looks at human bodies as cultural sites that have been constructed, experienced, and regulated in different ways at different times. In this continuous process of redefining and reimagining bodies, sex and sexualities emerge as important strategies that shape, control, and liberate bodies, both cultural and physical, individual and political. The course examines changing sexual behaviors and identities and considers the politics of sex as it moves out of private bedrooms into the realm of political ideologies, discourses, and practices.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 284W-1 Body and Sexuality Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1640 Lattimore Room 540 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: GSWS 232-1 (P), GSWS 232W-1, HIST 284-1, HIST 284W-1
Instructors: Tatyana Bakhmetyeva
Description: This course explores a number of thematic topics in the history and politics of sex, sexuality, and the body. It looks at human bodies as cultural sites that have been constructed, experienced, and regulated in different ways at different times. In this continuous process of redefining and reimagining bodies, sex and sexualities emerge as important strategies that shape, control, and liberate bodies, both cultural and physical, individual and political. The course examines changing sexual behaviors and identities and considers the politics of sex as it moves out of private bedrooms into the realm of political ideologies, discourses, and practices.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 285-1 Digital History: Building a Virtual St. George's Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Goergen Hall Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ATHS 245-1, HIST 285-1 (P), HIST 285W-1, HIST 485-1
Instructors: Michael Jarvis
Description: Students will conduct guided research using a variety of software and historical sources to help create a Virtual Digital St. Georges a 400-year-old town with approximately 250 properties and historic buildings. We will build multi-layer 2D and selective 3D computer models of the oldest town in English America (founded 1612). Work will include integrating different types of historical data into Excel or ArcGIS databases, independent research on specific buildings and property owners using digital newspaper archives, "building" individual 3D houses within the town using Sketch-Up or Blender, reconstructing and furnishing historic house interiors using interior design software. Students with computer programming experience may develop mini-games or mobile devise apps to educate modern visitors to the town. SPRING 2023: Students will have the option of a Spring Break archival research and architectural field recording experience actually in St. George's, Bermuda, March 4-12.
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 285W-1 Digital History: Building a Virtual St. George's Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Goergen Hall Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ATHS 245-1, HIST 285-1 (P), HIST 285W-1, HIST 485-1
Instructors: Michael Jarvis
Description: Students will conduct guided research using a variety of software and historical sources to help create a Virtual Digital St. Georges a 400-year-old town with approximately 250 properties and historic buildings. We will build multi-layer 2D and selective 3D computer models of the oldest town in English America (founded 1612). Work will include integrating different types of historical data into Excel or ArcGIS databases, independent research on specific buildings and property owners using digital newspaper archives, "building" individual 3D houses within the town using Sketch-Up or Blender, reconstructing and furnishing historic house interiors using interior design software. Students with computer programming experience may develop mini-games or mobile devise apps to educate modern visitors to the town. SPRING 2023: Students will have the option of a Spring Break archival research and architectural field recording experience actually in St. George's, Bermuda, March 4-12.
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 296-1 Writing History in Ancient Greece and Rome Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Lechase Room 184 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: CLST 220-1 (P), CLTR 204A-1, HIST 296-1
Instructors: Cameron Hawkins
Description: This course will provide a survey of the most important historical writers of the Greek and Roman world. We will read extensive selections from their work in translation, and discuss both the development of historiography as a literary genre and the development of history as a discipline in the ancient world. Finally, we will consider the implications these findings hold for our ability to use the works of Greek and Roman historical writers in our own efforts to construct narratives of the past.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 299H-1 UR Research: History and Your Project Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Frederick Douglass Room 302 01/11/2023 03/01/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Pablo Sierra
Description: Interested in designing an extensive research project of your own? This seminar introduces students to source identification,  prospectus preparation and grant-writing techniques for independent research. We will also discuss select readings on questions of memory, power, archives and our motivations as writers of History. This course is mandatory for students interested in completing the History Honors program next year. Students who are planning on developing an alternate independent study project are also welcome to enroll. As a 2.0 credit course, the course only meets the first eight weeks of the
semester (Jan. 11 - March 1).
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 327W-1 Real Existing Socialism: 19th and 20th Century Europe Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 940 1220 Rush Rhees Library Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: HIST 327W-1 (P), HIST 427-1
Instructors: Thomas Fleischman
Description: This course examines the diverse history of socialist ideology as lived-experience across Europe. It beings with the first theorists of socialism and places their ideas in the context of a rapidly industrializing Europe in Germany, France, and Great Britain. From the Paris Commune to the Iron Curtain, the course explores the surprising varieties of socialist socieites that emerged in the 19th and 20th centuries. This course asks students to consider: how were these societies ruled and why did they fail? To what extent were they influenced by the political philosophies of the 19th century? To what extent were they a product of geo-political conflicts and the failures of capitalism in the 20th? How did socialist leaders and citizens imagine the future of socialist development? What was the every-day lived experience of secret police and state force, but also of food, fashion, music, literature, and film?
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 346W-1 East Asia and the Cold War Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1640 Rush Rhees Library Room 456 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: HIST 346W-1 (P), HIST 446-1
Instructors: Michael Hayata
Description: This course probes the regional dynamics of the Cold War in East Asia by examining the histories of China, Japan, and South and North Korea during the second half of the twentieth century. It uses primary and secondary works – including literature, film, and government documents – to explore the domestic and international contexts that shaped the region’s geopolitical landscape.  Students will first study patterns of state control across East Asia in the form of rapid industrialization, land reform, and mass culture. They will then create dialogue between popular experiences of these social transformations by analyzing the alternative politics of such movements as the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Japanese peace movement, and South Korean democracy movement in relation to the Cold War world system.
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 350W-1 Captives: Past, Present, and Future (1500-2100) Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1400 1640 Rush Rhees Library Room 456 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: HIST 350W-1 (P), HIST 450-1
Instructors: Pablo Sierra
Description: Who or what is a captive? Traditionally, the term describes a person unwillingly held by invading forces, colonial pirates, and slave traders. This advanced seminar challenges us to consider the continued practice of captivity in our present-day societies. How do prisons, migrant detention centers, and guerrillas draw on former strategies of coercion and control? How integral is the denial of personhood to these practices, past and present? What of non-human captives? The course incorporates readings from Latin America, United States, Africa, and the vast Mediterranean region. We will explore how historical narratives of captivity are crafted, voiced, but also silenced. The following themes (and others) will be studied this semester: ransom, captive migrants, captive animals, sexual trafficking and imprisonment. Students will develop a research paper on a topic of their choice. Seminar meets once a week.
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 370W-1 Histories of Race and Revolt in US Literature and Film Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Rush Rhees Library Room 456 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: HIST 370W-1 (P), HIST 470-1
Instructors: Nicholas Bloom
Description: Literature—and over the past century, film—have been key to shaping modern subjects’ ideas about the past, and how that past has shaped their present. In this course, we will consider how histories of race, racial conflict, and revolt in the United States—so key to the nation’s social structures and dominant myths—have been told and re-shaped by literature and film. The course will pay particular attention to the interaction between race and revolt in the narratives we study—how race shapes narratives of political and social revolt, and how these narratives of revolt in turn shape ideas about race.  Histories of Black revolt, indigenous wars and rebellions, immigrant rebellions in the US, and wars of US imperial aggression overseas will all receive attention. Additionally, the course will consider how US literature and film have dealt with rebellions with primarily white protagonists, and how these narratives have shaped and been shaped by racial structures and ideologies.  The course is ultimately concerned with how literature and film have shaped dominant understandings of who can and does participate in revolts, and why; and in turn, how these narratives have impacted the social and political struggles that follow in their wake.
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 374W-1 Pandemics, Politics and Policies in the US, 1918-2020 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Rush Rhees Library Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
19
Co-Located: HIST 374W-1 (P), HIST 474-1, PHLT 374-1, PSCI 316W-1
Instructors: Mical Raz
Restrictions: Not open to First Year and Sophomore - AS&E
Description: In this advanced seminar, students will learn about prior epidemics and pandemics primarily in the United States, and asses the policy responses to these events. They will learn about a number of key case studies in the history of pandemic response, and examine the political history of these responses. They will critically examine primary sources to shed light on contemporary understandings of pandemics and the responses to them, and how these responses were negotiated. With this knowledge and analysis, students will learn to think critically about current pandemics and tie them to a longer history of pandemic responses.  
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 393-1 Advanced or Senior Project/Seminar/Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Thomas Fleischman
Description: Advanced project/thesis.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 393-2 Advanced or Senior Project/Seminar/Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Brianna Theobald
Description: Advanced Project/Thesis
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 393H-1 Advanced or Senior Project/Seminar/Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Matthew Lenoe
Description: Advanced or Senior Project/Seminar/Thesis
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 393H-2 Advanced or Senior Project/Seminar/Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Stewart Weaver
Description: Advanced or Senior Project/Seminar/Thesis
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 393H-3 Advanced or Senior Project/Seminar/Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Thomas Fleischman
Description: Advanced or Senior Project/Seminar/Thesis
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 393H-4 Advanced or Senior Project/Seminar/Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Brianna Theobald
Description: Advanced or Senior Project/Seminar/Thesis
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 393H-5 Advanced or Senior Project/Seminar/Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Pablo Sierra
Description: Advanced or Senior Project/Seminar/Thesis
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 399H-1 Honors Research Seminar Spring 2023 2.0 Open
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Thomas Fleischman
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This Spring semester seminar (2.0 credits) is taught by the Honors director. Enrollment is reserved for History seniors whose Honors research has progressed adequately during Fall semester. Students in 399H should also register to continue their Honors research in HIST 393H (4.0 credits with their advisor).
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 420-1 Medieval Crusades: Conflict Across Cultures Spring 2023 5.0 Open
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
15
Description: The edges of medieval Europe were a melting pot of peoples, cultures, and religions. Using Christian, Muslim, and Jewish sources, this course will examine how complex forces enabled co-existence and cooperation but also conflict. We will focus especially on the military expeditions known as the Crusades which occurred between about 1100 and 1300. Were the Crusades holy wars motivated by religion? Proto-colonial enterprises? Or personal pursuits of martial and dynastic glory? Alongside these questions, we will investigate how the memory of the Crusades survives in modern culture and politics.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 427-1 Real Existing Socialism: 19th and 20th Century Europe Spring 2023 5.0 Open
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 940 1220 Rush Rhees Library Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: HIST 327W-1 (P), HIST 427-1
Instructors: Thomas Fleischman
Description: This course examines the diverse history of socialist ideology as lived-experience across Europe. It beings with the first theorists of socialism and places their ideas in the context of a rapidly industrializing Europe in Germany, France, and Great Britain. From the Paris Commune to the Iron Curtain, the course explores the surprising varieties of socialist socieites that emerged in the 19th and 20th centuries. This course asks students to consider: how were these societies ruled and why did they fail? To what extent were they influenced by the political philosophies of the 19th century? To what extent were they a product of geo-political conflicts and the failures of capitalism in the 20th? How did socialist leaders and citizens imagine the future of socialist development? What was the every-day lived experience of secret police and state force, but also of food, fashion, music, literature, and film?
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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HIST 446-1 East Asia and the Cold War Spring 2023 5.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1640 Rush Rhees Library Room 456 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: HIST 346W-1 (P), HIST 446-1
Instructors: Michael Hayata
Description: This course probes the regional dynamics of the Cold War in East Asia by examining the histories of China, Japan, and South and North Korea during the second half of the twentieth century. It uses primary and secondary works – including literature, film, and government documents – to explore the domestic and international contexts that shaped the region’s geopolitical landscape.  Students will first study patterns of state control across East Asia in the form of rapid industrialization, land reform, and mass culture. They will then create dialogue between popular experiences of these social transformations by analyzing the alternative politics of such movements as the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Japanese peace movement, and South Korean democracy movement in relation to the Cold War world system.
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 450-1 Captives: Past, Present, and Future (1500-2100) Spring 2023 5.0 Open
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1400 1640 Rush Rhees Library Room 456 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: HIST 350W-1 (P), HIST 450-1
Instructors: Pablo Sierra
Description:
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Who or what is a captive? Traditionally, the term describes a person unwillingly held by invading forces, colonial pirates, and slave traders. This advanced seminar challenges us to consider the continued practice of captivity in our present-day societies. How do prisons, migrant detention centers, and guerrillas draw on former strategies of coercion and control? How integral is the denial of personhood to these practices, past and present? What of non-human captives? The course incorporates readings from Latin America, United States, Africa, and the vast Mediterranean region. We will explore how historical narratives of captivity are crafted, voiced, but also silenced. The following themes (and others) will be studied this semester: ransom, captive migrants, captive animals, sexual trafficking and imprisonment. Students will develop a research paper on a topic of their choice. Seminar meets once a week.
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 453-1 Immigration and the Americas Spring 2023 5.0 Open
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: HIST 252-1 (P), HIST 252W-1, HIST 453-1
Instructors: Molly Ball
Description: The United States received the largest number of immigrants in the western hemisphere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but immigrants’ relative impact in Latin American countries like Brazil and Argentina was arguably more substantial. This course explores the complex events, trends and personal considerations affecting migrants' decisions and experiences. In exploring the movement of Italians, Japanese, Mexicans, and other groups to and within the Americas, we will seek to understand their movements as a function of three essential questions: why do people migrate; who migrates; and how do they choose where they migrate? The course will incorporate a variety of materials including interviews, memoirs, monographs, and demographic studies. Students will also discover Rochester’s own rich immigrant history. Graduate students will develop an extended exploration into the dynamics of internal migration and immigration over the course of the semester.
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 470-1 Histories of Race and Revolt in US Literature and Film Spring 2023 5.0 Open
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Rush Rhees Library Room 456 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: HIST 370W-1 (P), HIST 470-1
Instructors: Nicholas Bloom
Description: Literature—and over the past century, film—have been key to shaping modern subjects’ ideas about the past, and how that past has shaped their present. In this course, we will consider how histories of race, racial conflict, and revolt in the United States—so key to the nation’s social structures and dominant myths—have been told and re-shaped by literature and film. The course will pay particular attention to the interaction between race and revolt in the narratives we study—how race shapes narratives of political and social revolt, and how these narratives of revolt in turn shape ideas about race.  Histories of Black revolt, indigenous wars and rebellions, immigrant rebellions in the US, and wars of US imperial aggression overseas will all receive attention. Additionally, the course will consider how US literature and film have dealt with rebellions with primarily white protagonists, and how these narratives have shaped and been shaped by racial structures and ideologies.  The course is ultimately concerned with how literature and film have shaped dominant understandings of who can and does participate in revolts, and why; and in turn, how these narratives have impacted the social and political struggles that follow in their wake. ​
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 474-1 Pandemics, Politics and Policies in the US, 1918-2020 Spring 2023 5.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Rush Rhees Library Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
19
Co-Located: HIST 374W-1 (P), HIST 474-1, PHLT 374-1, PSCI 316W-1
Instructors: Mical Raz
Description: In this advanced seminar, students will learn about prior epidemics and pandemics primarily in the United States, and asses the policy responses to these events. They will learn about a number of key case studies in the history of pandemic response, and examine the political history of these responses. They will critically examine primary sources to shed light on contemporary understandings of pandemics and the responses to them, and how these responses were negotiated. With this knowledge and analysis, students will learn to think critically about current pandemics and tie them to a longer history of pandemic responses.  
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 485-1 Digital History: Building a Virtual St. George's Spring 2023 5.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Goergen Hall Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ATHS 245-1, HIST 285-1 (P), HIST 285W-1, HIST 485-1
Instructors: Michael Jarvis
Description: Students will conduct guided research using a variety of software and historical sources to help create a Virtual Digital St. Georges  a 400-year-old town with approximately 250 properties and historic buildings. We will build multi-layer 2D and selective 3D computer models of the oldest town in English America (founded 1612). Work will include integrating different types of historical data into Excel or ArcGIS databases, independent research on specific buildings and property owners using digital newspaper archives, "building" individual 3D houses within the town using Sketch-Up or Blender, reconstructing and furnishing historic house interiors using interior design software. Students with computer programming experience may develop mini-games or mobile devise apps to educate modern visitors to the town. SPRING 2023: Students will have the option of a Spring Break archival research and architectural field recording experience actually in St. George's, Bermuda, March 4-12.
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 497-1 Historical Archaeology Spring 2023 5.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Rush Rhees Library Room 456 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ATHS 240-1, HIST 280-1 (P), HIST 280W-1, HIST 497-1
Instructors: Michael Jarvis
Description: This course introduces students to historical archaeology and uses archaeological sites, material culture, and architecture to investigate European colonization of the Americas. Topics include Euro-Indian contact, the transfer of European and African cultures to American shores, creolization and the emergence of distinctly American traditions, Atlantic connections, and how non-documentary sources help us understand the lives of African Americans, Indians, and white settlers. SPRING 2023: Students will have the option of a Spring Break field excavation experience in Bermuda, March 4-12.
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 502-1 Dissertation Writers' Seminar Spring 2023 5.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1640 Rush Rhees Library Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Thomas Devaney
Description: The purpose of this course is to help students launch their dissertation projects and its chief outcome will be the dissertation prospectus. To that end, we will work on identifying topics, locating primary sources, engaging with the research literature, finding and applying for external research funding, and drafting and revising the prospectus. We will also discuss related topics, such as archival research practices and presenting work in progress at conferences and other meetings. This course is envisioned as a collaborative enterprise; though each student will focus on their own project, peer support and feedback will be an important part of all we do.  
Offered: Fall Spring
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HIST 593-1 Apprentice Teaching Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Thomas Devaney
Description: Apprentice teachers act as participant-observers in an undergraduate course under the close supervision of a member of the faculty. Ordinarily, students will attend the course; hold weekly meetings with the professor to discuss the progress of the course, and, in many cases, consider strategies for teaching the weeks assigned reading, assist the professor in preparing examination questions, paper topics, and other written assignments; gain experience in evaluating undergraduates work by reading and commenting on (but not grading) exams and essays; and prepare a lecture or lead a class discussion.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering International Relations
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INTR 106-1 Intro to International Relations Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1525 1615 Lattimore Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
32 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: INTR 106-1 (P), PSCI 106-1
Instructors: Henk Goemans
Description: This course provides students with the background and conceptual tools they need to understand contemporary international relations. The course will introduce students to the wide range of issues that make up the study of international relations, including the workings of the state system, the causes of international conflict and violence, and international economic relations. Students will be introduced to the literature in a broad way, to make them familiar with the main theoretical traditions in the field. Students will be asked, as much as possible, to read original texts, rather than a textbook. Time permitting, we will also examine topics of particular current interest, such as the evolving nature of power in the post-Cold War environment as well as special global challenges like nation-building and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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INTR 221-1 Nationalism, Central Europe, and the Russia-Ukraine War Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Meliora Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Piotr Klodkowski
Description: The idea of Central Europe, which originally had a strong German affiliation, is historically linked with the legacy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. On a 21st-century map, Central Europe is made up of Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, and western Ukraine. After WW II most of Central Europe became a strategic part of the external Soviet empire, and all Central European countries experienced political oppression, economic underdevelopment, and social stagnation. Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary contributed to the final collapse of communist ideology in 1989-90 and collectively embarked on the path leading to full integration with the European Union. Russia's invasion of Ukraine and its implications, however, changed the political perspective of Central European countries. Poland and Hungary, once close allies, now view Russia's role differently, especially Moscow's imperial ambitions. Nationalism, authoritarianism, and illiberal democracy have become significant elements of the political message provided by mainstream parties, though many Central European politicians claim that the region is going through a "strategic awakening". This “strategic awakening” may have different interpretations, especially vis-à-vis Russia and Ukraine.   
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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INTR 239-2 Int'l Environmental Law Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Harkness Room 115 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
22
Co-Located: EHUM 239-2, INTR 239-2 (P), PSCI 239-2, SUST 239-2
Instructors: Milena Novy-Marx
Description: An examination of international environmental law and policy with a special focus on efforts to address climate change, including the Paris Agreement under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. This course serves as a companion to PSC 246, but PSC 246 is not a prerequisite. The goal of this course is to provide a foundational understanding of this rapidly developing, controversial field. Topics include consideration of the scientific, political, and economic drivers of international environmental law; the variety of tools (e.g., treaties, agreements, soft law,? voluntary incentive programs and market based approaches); and examples of how some international environmental issues have been addressed to date, including efforts to date on climate change. This course will be taught through lectures, discussion, several concise papers, and a group project.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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INTR 253-1 Comparative Political Parties Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1400 1640 Harkness Room 112 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
7
Co-Located: INTR 253-1 (P), INTR 253W-1, PSCI 253-1, PSCI 253W-1
Instructors: Bonnie Meguid
Description: Examines the nature of political parties and political competition across democracies in the developed and developing worlds.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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INTR 253W-1 Comparative Political Parties Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1400 1640 Harkness Room 112 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
2
Co-Located: INTR 253-1 (P), INTR 253W-1, PSCI 253-1, PSCI 253W-1
Instructors: Bonnie Meguid
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Examines the nature of political parties and political competition across democracies in the developed and developing worlds. Issues analyzed include the formation of different types of parties, their role in agenda-setting, policy-making and representation, and their transformation in the post-World War II era.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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INTR 254-1 Fascism: Politics, History, and Culture Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Gavett Hall Room 310 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
46 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: INTR 254-1 (P), INTR 254W-1, PSCI 254-1, PSCI 254W-1
Instructors: Kevin Clarke
Description: Fascism is a common term of political opprobrium, but few know what it actually means. This course examines the ideologies and practices of fascist movements to understand both the past and the present. Students learn about the economic, political, and cultural circumstances from which fascism emerged, and we consider the fascist obsession with national, sexual, and racial identity. Class time is divided between lecture and discussion; students are encouraged to participate.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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INTR 254W-1 Fascism: Politics, History, and Culture Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Gavett Hall Room 310 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
45 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: INTR 254-1 (P), INTR 254W-1, PSCI 254-1, PSCI 254W-1
Instructors: Kevin Clarke
Description: Fascism is a common term of political opprobrium, but few know what it actually means. This course examines the ideologies and practices of fascist movements to understand both the past and the present. Students learn about the economic, political, and cultural circumstances from which fascism emerged, and we consider the fascist obsession with national, sexual, and racial identity. Class time is divided between lecture and discussion; students are encouraged to participate.
Offered: Fall Spring
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INTR 260-1 Democratic Erosion Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Harkness Room 329 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: INTR 260-1 (P), INTR 260W-1, PSCI 260-1, PSCI 260W-1
Instructors: Gretchen Helmke
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Is American democracy under threat? What about democracy in the West, or the world more generally? How can we detect if democracies are eroding? Democratic Erosion is a new upper-level undergraduate seminar, based on a cross-university collaboration, which is aimed at evaluating threats to democracy both in the United States and abroad through the lens of theory, history and social science. Importantly, the class is not intended as a partisan critique, but rather teaches students how to answer questions about democratic erosion using both analytical and empirical tools. NOTE: Course not open to first-year students.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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INTR 260W-1 Democratic Erosion Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Harkness Room 329 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: INTR 260-1 (P), INTR 260W-1, PSCI 260-1, PSCI 260W-1
Instructors: Gretchen Helmke
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Is American democracy under threat? What about democracy in the West, or the world more generally? How can we detect if democracies are eroding? Democratic Erosion is a new upper-level undergraduate seminar, based on a cross-university collaboration, which is aimed at evaluating threats to democracy both in the United States and abroad through the lens of theory, history and social science. Importantly, the class is not intended as a partisan critique, but rather teaches students how to answer questions about democratic erosion using both analytical and empirical tools. NOTE: Course not open to first-year students.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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INTR 268-1 International Organization Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Harkness Room 112 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
4
Co-Located: INTR 268-1 (P), INTR 268W-1, PSCI 268-1, PSCI 268W-1
Instructors: Randall Stone
Description: This course focuses on a key mechanism facilitating international cooperation – international institutions. The course examines institutions ranging from informal institutions, or regimes, to formal, intergovernmental organizations. We ask the following questions: how are institutions established? What makes them change over time? What impact (if any) do they have? How do they influence government policies? How do they operate? How do they structure decision-making? How do international institutions affect domestic politics? The course will begin by focusing on different theoretical perspectives on these questions, and continue by examining international institutions in specific issue areas.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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INTR 268W-1 International Organization Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Harkness Room 112 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
3
Co-Located: INTR 268-1 (P), INTR 268W-1, PSCI 268-1, PSCI 268W-1
Instructors: Randall Stone
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course focuses on a key mechanism facilitating international cooperation – international institutions. The course examines institutions ranging from informal institutions, or regimes, to formal, intergovernmental organizations. We ask the following questions: how are institutions established? What makes them change over time? What impact (if any) do they have? How do they influence government policies? How do they operate? How do they structure decision-making? How do international institutions affect domestic politics? The course will begin by focusing on different theoretical perspectives on these questions, and continue by examining international institutions in specific issue areas.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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INTR 373-1 Territory and Group Conflict Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Meliora Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: INTR 373-1 (P), INTR 373W-1, PSCI 373-1, PSCI 373W-1, PSCI 573-1
Instructors: Henk Goemans
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This graduate seminar examines a long-neglected topic: the role of territory in group politics. The goal is to build a basic understanding of why, when, how and which territory becomes contested. We will read from a broad range of disciplines. Each student is expected to write two short papers for two different sessions, which are not to exceed 1500 words. Each paper should provide an independent commentary of you own on some aspect of that week's readings. These papers form the background against which we will discuss the readings in class. In addition, each student is required to write a 20-25 page research paper, which focuses in depth on one of the discussed emerging research agendas. As in other graduate seminars, the course will be conducted almost exclusively through discussion. Hence it is crucial that students do the reading in advance, to set aside time to reflect on the readings, and to prepare comments and questions. Instructor permission required for undergraduates.
Offered: Fall Spring
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INTR 373W-1 Territory and Group Conflict Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Meliora Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: INTR 373-1 (P), INTR 373W-1, PSCI 373-1, PSCI 373W-1, PSCI 573-1
Instructors: Henk Goemans
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This graduate seminar examines a long neglected topic: the role of territory in group politics. The goal is to build a basic understanding of why, when, how and which territory becomes contested. We will read from a broad range of disciplines. Each student is expected to write two short papers for two different sessions, which are not to exceed 1500 words. Each paper should provide an independent commentary of you own on some aspect of that week's readings. These papers form the background against which we will discuss the readings in class. In addition, each student is required to write a 20-25 page research paper, which focuses in depth on one of the discussed emerging research agendas. As in other graduate seminars, the course will be conducted almost exclusively through discussion. Hence it is crucial that students do the reading in advance, to set aside time to reflect on the readings, and to prepare comments and questions. Instructor permission required for undergraduates.
Offered: Fall Spring
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INTR 393W-1 Senior Honors Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: INTR 393W-1 (P), PSCI 393W-1
Instructors: Scott Abramson
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: A year-long research project supervised by a faculty member in the department and culminating in a written work. Instructor permission only.
Offered: Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Modern Languages & Cultures - Italian
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ITAL 102-1 Elementary Italian II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1400 1450 Lechase Room 141 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Teresa Murano
Description: Continuation of IT 101. The objective of the course is to provide beginners with a thorough grounding in all language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Emphasis is placed on both grammar and cultural information. Classes meet five times a week and combine language theory and practice. Each class is fifty minutes long. Students must sign up for both a MWF and a TR block. As far as Italian is concerned, the terms 'lecture' and 'recitation' conventionally used to identify the blocks have a purely bureaucratic significance and do not reflect in any way the pedagogical approach of the course.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ITAL 114-1 Conversational Italian Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Frederick Douglass Room 308 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
7
Instructors: Teresa Murano
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Conversation course designed to help students with a good knowledge of Italian grammar develop facility with the spoken language. Emphasis on vocabulary-building. Class time devoted to debate, discussions, and conversations about current topics and aspects of contemporary Italian culture. Themes for discussion both extemporaneous and planned. Students are expected to prepare for the assigned themes in advance. Recommended in conjunction with any Italian course, except for IT 101 and 102. May be taken twice.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ITAL 152-1 Intermediate Italian II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1525 1615 Meliora Room 224 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Andrew Korn
Description: This course is the second half of a two-semester Intermediate Italian sequence designed for students to attain a degree of linguistic and cultural competence that will allow them to engage well in an Italian-speaking environment. Conducted entirely in Italian, this course will reinforce, build upon and refine the listening, speaking, reading and writing skills that students obtained in the Elementary Italian sequence, and will present them to more challenging cultural material. The course will increase students' abilities to understand and use the language, introducing them to more complex grammar structures, expanding their vocabularies and building their confidence through a variety of activities and assignments. The course materials will allow students to explore various cultural matters and develop cross-cultural skills through comparisons between their native cultures and the Italian world.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ITAL 203-1 Introduction to Italian Literature Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Morey Room 501 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Teresa Murano
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Conducted in Italian, this course provides an overview of Italian literature from the 13th to the 20th century. Students will sample early texts in Italian vernacular: the religious poetry of the 13th century, and the writings of major authors such as Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca and Niccol Machiavelli. The course addresses different literary movements as well as different genres of writings (e.g., novella, canzone, sonnet, lyrical and epic poetry). In addition this course will aim to refine and perfect both your speaking skills, as well as your understanding of complex grammatical rules in Italian.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ITAL 243-1 Postwar Italian Directors: Fellini, Antonioni, Cavani Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 105 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: CLTR 212-1 (P), ENGL 262-1, ENGL 462-1, FMST 239-1, ITAL 243-1
Instructors: Andrew Korn
Description: This course explores three of Italy’s most prominent post-WWII directors, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Liliana Cavani, who developed distinct cinemas and contributed radical representations to key cultural debates. Students will examine each filmmaker’s specific thematic and stylistic innovations, such as Fellini’s carnivalesque and dreamlike states, Antonioni’s use of space and color, and Cavani’s marginal figures and use of flashback. Students will also compare how their works address three of postwar Italy’s and the West’s most critical questions: modernization, the 1968 student protests and the legacy of Fascism. Films include: Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and Amarcord; Antonioni’s Red Desert and Zabriskie Point; and Cavani’s The Cannibals and The Night Porter. Assignments include: historical, biographical and critical readings, film screenings, short papers and a final essay. Readings will be in English and films will be shown with English subtitles.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ITAL 250-1 Wartime Love: Italian Novels of the Fifties and Sixties Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Genesee Hall Room 323 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: CLTR 228A-1 (P), GSWS 221-1, ITAL 250-1
Instructors: Andrew Korn
Description: The years following the Second World War saw an outpouring of novels in Italy, all attempting to capture the realities of the tumultuous period just passed. In this course, we will explore three of the era's most remarkable works:Giorgio Bassani's The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, Beppe Fenoglio's A Private Affair and Natalia Ginzburg's Family Lexicon.What distinguishes them are the unique lenses through which they recount history, offering glimpses of how love, in particular, becomes entangled in politics and war: in Bassani's story, a town ostracizes an older resident for his relationship with a young man during the rise of Fascism; in Fenoglio's tale, a partisan's memories of his beloved veer him off course during the Resistance; and in Ginzburg's account, a woman relates her antifascist Jewish family's trials and tribulations under dictatorship. To complement the novels, there will be a theoretical component to elaborate the issues of gender, sexuality and relationality. Assignments include: historical, biographical and critical readings, short papers and a final essay. All readings will be in English.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Modern Languages & Cultures - Japanese
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
JPNS 102-1 Elementary Japanese II Spring 2023 6.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Lechase Room 181 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
24
Instructors: Shizuka Hardy
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Sequel to JPNS 101. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR BOTH LECTURE AND RECITATION JPNS 102-5 or JPNS 102-6. Lecture and recitation designed to help the students at the late beginning level acquire a practical command of modern Japanese in all areas. Although the main emphasis is still on speaking and listening, the students will have more opportunities for writing than in JPNS 101. The classes will be conducted in both Japanese and English. The students will master, among other things, keigo (polite language), female vs. male speech style, and direct style verbals. Textbook: (1) Genki I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese by Eri Banno, 3rd Edition (The Japan Times)  (2) Course Workbook by Hardy and Taguchi. 6 credits.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
JPNS 102-2 Elementary Japanese II Spring 2023 6.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lechase Room 103 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
24
Instructors: Yuki Taguchi
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Sequel to JPN 101. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR BOTH LECTURE AND RECITATION JPNS102-3 or JPNS102-4. Lecture and recitation designed to help the students at the late beginning level acquire a practical command of modern Japanese in all areas. Although the main emphasis is still on speaking and listening, the students will have more opportunities for writing than in JPN 101. The classes will be conducted in both Japanese and English. The students will master, among other things, keigo (polite language), female vs. male speech style, and direct style verbals. Textbook: (1) Genki I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, by Eri Banno Yutaka Ohno, et.al., 3rd Edition (The Japan Times) (2) Course Workbook by Hardy and Taguchi. 6 credits.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
JPNS 102-7 Elementary Japanese II Spring 2023 6.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Lechase Room 103 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
24
Instructors: Yuki Taguchi
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Sequel to JPN 101. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR BOTH LECTURE AND RECITATION JPNS102-8 or JPNS102-9. Lecture and recitation designed to help the students at the late beginning level acquire a practical command of modern Japanese in all areas. Although the main emphasis is still on speaking and listening, the students will have more opportunities for writing than in JPN 101. The classes will be conducted in both Japanese and English. The students will master, among other things, keigo (polite language), female vs. male speech style, and direct style verbals. Textbook: (1) Genki I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, by Eri Banno Yutaka Ohno, et.al., 3rd Edition (The Japan Times) (2) Course Workbook by Hardy and Taguchi. 6 credits.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
JPNS 115-1 Intermediate Conversational Japanese II Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Lechase Room 160 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Yuki Taguchi
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course is designed to improve your oral proficiency in the Japanese language through a variety of communicative activities. Students will practice speaking and listening though activities, which include discussions on different topics with peers and as a class, work on group and pair work to accomplish each communicative task. Pre-requisite: JPNS151 above or placement test.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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JPNS 152-1 Intermediate Japanese II Spring 2023 6.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Meliora Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
22
Instructors: Mariko Tamate
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR BOTH LECTURE AND RECITATION JPNS152-5 or JPNS152-6. Sequel to JPNS 151. Textbooks: (1) Genki II by Eri Banno, 3rd Edition (The Japan Times) (Lessons 18 through 23) (2) Supplementary Course Book by Tamate. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
JPNS 152-2 Intermediate Japanese II Spring 2023 6.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Lechase Room 160 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Shizuka Hardy
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR BOTH LECTURE AND RECITATION JPNS152-3 or JPNS152-4. Sequel to JPNS 151. Textbooks: (1) Genki II by Eri Banno, 3rd Edition (The Japan Times) (Lessons 18 through 23) (2) Supplementary Course Book by Tamate. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
JPNS 202-1 Advanced Intermediate Japanese II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Meliora Room 218 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Mariko Tamate
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course aims at further improvement of student's overall proficiency in the Japanese language. Students will start learning colloquial speech style used heavily among family members and/or close friends through the video program based on a Japanese TV drama. Reading skills will be improved through reading various 'raw' materials. Essay assignments will be given to students regularly in order to brush up their writing skills. Requirements include unit quizzes, oral quizzes, a comprehensive final and some other little quizzes such as vocabulary tests. Class taught in Japanese.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
JPNS 204-1 Advanced Conversational Japanese II Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Meliora Room 221 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Shizuka Hardy
Description: This course is designed to improve your oral proficiency in the Japanese language through a variety of communicative activities. You will develop and put into practice your grammatical knowledge and vocabulary to demonstrate authentic Japanese conversation skills. Activities include situation-based role-plays, watching movies, discussions on different topics with peers and as a class and individual and pair work to accomplish each communicative task. Students must complete JPNS152 or above.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
JPNS 206-1 Advanced Japanese II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Meliora Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Mariko Tamate
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Readings in Japanese in fiction and essays by popular Japanese writers. A video program based on a popularJapanese cartoon will enhance students' ability to understand different speech styles adopted by people at various social levels. Class taught in Japanese.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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JPNS 207-1 Film as Object Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Wegmans Room 1009 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
14
Co-Located: CLTR 230-1 (P), CLTR 430-1, ENGL 258-2, ENGL 458-1, FMST 243-1, JPNS 207-1
Instructors: Joanne Bernardi
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Moving images recorded on analog film defined the 20th century in an unprecedented way. This course considers the tangible object that is the source of the image onscreen, and the social, cultural, and historical value of a reel of film as an organic element with a finite life cycle. We focus on the analog photographic element and its origins (both theatrical and small gauge), the basics of photochemical film technology, and the state of film conservation and preservation worldwide. Guest lectures by staff of the Moving Image Department of George Eastman Museum provide a first-hand look at film preservation in action, allowing us to consider analog film as an ephemeral form of material culture: a multipurpose, visual record that is art, entertainment, evidentiary document, and historical artifact. Weekly film assignments. Class meets on River Campus and at George Eastman Museum (900 East Ave, no admission fee but students provide their own transportation). No audits, no pre-requisites. Enrollment limited by hands-on nature of course.
Offered: Fall Spring
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JPNS 219A-1 Tourist Japan Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Hylan Building Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
1
Instructors: Joanne Bernardi
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Focused on but not limited to the first half of the 20th century, this course explores representations of Japan in a wide range of visual and material culture: e.g., ephemera generated by tourism, education and entertainment; advertisements and souvenirs; and wartime propaganda traveling similar routes of exchange. Travel brochures, guidebooks, photographs, postcards, films and other objects reflect changing concepts of urban space, rural culture, industry, geography, and military and political authority. Recurrent iconography and coded images link tourism and educational objects and images with evolving concepts of and questions regarding modernity, nationalism and cultural identity: e.g., how is the meaning of “modernity” in Japan useful to a study of the continuous transformation of culture in specific contexts, as in the transition from ukiyo-e culture to photography and animated films? This lecture/discussion course has a digital component: students work hands-on with the Re-Envisioning Japan Collection and digital archive, learning both critical analysis and digital curation skills. The course includes weekly film assignments and one field trip each to the Memorial Art Gallery and George Eastman Museum. No audits. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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JPNS 229-1 Japanese Calligraphy & Graphology Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1400 1640 Lechase Room 181 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Keiko Nishioka; William Bridges
Description: This class focuses on the artistic practices and culture of Japanese calligraphy. It is co-taught by a professional Japanese calligrapher. We begin with the selection of a pen name and the carving of a soft stone stamp. From here, we will practice a variety of calligraphic styles, including kaisho (print script), gyosho (cursive style) and sosho (simplified cursive style) of kanji (Chinese characters). We will also learn the meanings of kanji. The course concludes with an exhibit of calligraphic artwork. For the cultural component of this class, we will study “graphology,” or how handwritten messages are read for meaning, in works of Japanese fiction, film, and manga. This course is ideal for those who have studied some calligraphy previously, but newcomers are also welcome. Likewise, previous study of Chinese or Japanese, while helpful, is not required. Calligraphy materials required for this course cannot be found in the bookstore; materials will be discussed on the first day of class.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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JPNS 245-1 Japanese Science Fiction and Planetary Possible Futures Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1650 1930 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: CLTR 264E-1 (P), FMST 236-1, JPNS 245-1
Instructors: William Bridges
Description: A good science fiction story,' Frederik Pohl proposes, 'should be able to predict not the automobile, but the traffic jam.' This course considers the 'traffic jams' the far-flung possible worlds imagined in Japanese science fiction from the 1920s to the present. Genres covered include the short story, short short story, novel, manga, anime, and film. Japanese science fiction is considered in planetary perspective: Japanese works are considered alongside pertinent works from other national traditions of science fiction. This course is interested ultimately in explorations of a futuristic approach to the study of literature: it is interested in what our readings today might tell us about what tomorrow might bring. All readings are done in English translation; all viewing have English subtitling.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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JPNS 392-1 Practicum in Japanese Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Description: Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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JPNS 393-1 Senior Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
15
Description: A paper based upon independent study; required of concentrators.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Judaic Studies
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
JWST 102-1 Elementary Modern Hebrew II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Rush Rhees Library Room 442 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: HBRW 102-1 (P), JWST 102-1
Instructors: Michela Andreatta
Description: Come learn the language of the Hebrew Bible and of sleepless Tel Aviv nights! One of the oldest languages in the world, for several centuries Hebrew was used only as a literary tool until it was revived as a national Jewish language starting in the late 19th century. Today, Hebrew is the official language of Israel and is studied and spoken by Jews and non-Jews all around the world. Used in everyday life, songs, films, and on the Internet, Hebrew has never been so young!

This course is the direct continuation of HBRW 101 that is taught in the Fall. Emphasis is on further developing reading, writing, comprehension, and speaking skills, with a focus on cultural orientation and the practical use of Hebrew in meaningful everyday situations. During the semester, students will expand the basic language skills acquired in HBRW 101, enhance their understanding of Hebrew grammar constructions (in particular, verbs in the present and past tense, use of direct object and prepositional verbs, common syntactical constructions), and increase their vocabulary. The course will cover the textbook Hebrew from Scratch vol. 1 from Lesson 3 through Lesson 17, and will be supplemented by additional written, audio, and video materials in Hebrew.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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JWST 104-1 Intermediate Modern Hebrew II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1815 1930 Rush Rhees Library Room 428D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: HBRW 104-1 (P), JWST 104-1
Instructors: Sapir Soble
Description: Welcome to your second year of modern Hebrew! By completion of this second semester of Hebrew at the intermediate level, you will further expand speech interaction in free and authentic informal Hebrew in a variety of everyday situations. Your understanding and use of grammar constructions (in particular, of the verb system) will be enhanced and your vocabulary dramatically increased. You will also develop reading skills enabling you to approach texts written in a higher and more formal style than the one used in speaking and be able to effectively use a Hebrew-English-Hebrew dictionary. The course will continue covering the second volume of the textbook Hebrew from Scratch and will be supplemented by additional written, audio, and video materials in Hebrew.
Offered: Fall Spring
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JWST 113-2 History of Judaism Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Rush Rhees Library Room 442 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: HIST 176-2, JWST 113-2 (P), RELC 103-2
Instructors: Emma Brodeur
Description: This course is an introduction to Jewish religion and culture from ancient to modern times. Designed for students with little or no prior knowledge of Judaism, it will examine the formation, ruptures, and changes of Jewish tradition, identity, and culture beginning with the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible), continuing through Rabbinic interpretations of law and lore, medieval Jewish thought, early modern Jewish mysticism, the Enlightenment and modern Jewish philosophy, up to contemporary American Jewish feminism. Because this course explores a large swath of the history of Judaism, its peoples, and ideas in various geographic contexts, we will continually question the claim that there exists a single, static, essential entity called “Judaism.” Paying close attention to changes in Jewish religious and cultural self-understanding and traditions across primary and secondary texts, we will instead investigate the possibility that there were and are multiple “Judaisms” just as there were and are multiple “Jews” living in different cultural, religious, and geographic settings throughout time.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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JWST 243-1 Revolutions and Revolt Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: CLTR 238A-1 (P), CLTR 438A-1, GRMN 238-1, GRMN 438-1, GSWS 237-1, JWST 243-1
Instructors: Lisa Cerami
Description: Revolutions and Revolt is an experimental course that examines 20th century German cultural history. We will explore questions of social justice, representation, and political expression clustered around three major revolutionary moments: the German Revolution of 1918, the German Student Movement of 1968, and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Our course will be oriented by a careful reading of Marx and Engle's Communist Manifesto, that, while also defining the conditions of possibility for an empowered proletarian class, can also be used a tool to reflect on the revolutionary features of language, poetry, and art. We will think about specific genres – the manifesto, the pamphlet, political theater, and film, as genres that calls or could call "revolution" into being. These historical hinge points (a term I am borrowing from Matt Christman) bring various emancipatory impulses into relief, beyond the history of class conflict described in the Communist Manifesto, and we will engage with pacificist, anti-fascist, feminist, and Jewish texts and artworks. This course is conducted in English, and our readings are English translations of German texts, but if students of German would like to work on original texts, these can be provided along with alternative assignments where German language practice might be implemented.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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JWST 275-1 Psychology, Religion, Ethics, Love Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lattimore Room 413 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: JWST 275-1 (P), RELC 275-1
Instructors: Emma Brodeur
Description: This course invites you to look at and analyze your own dreams, loves, self-doubts, interpersonal conflicts, moral beliefs, and religious practices, and those of people around you, from the perspective of unconscious passions. Drawing on the findings of classical and contemporary psychoanalysts, the course investigates how these thinkers/clinicians explore the unconscious mind and how it influences our beliefs, emotions, and behaviors. We will consider the ways in which these depth psychological theories and modes of self-exploration offer guidance on how to live, what to believe, and how to relate to others.
Offered: Spring
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JWST 325-1 Responding to the Holocaust Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Meliora Room 218 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
8
Co-Located: JWST 325-1 (P), RELC 325-1
Instructors: Emma Brodeur
Description: This course examines Jewish responses to the Nazi Holocaust. The focus is how Jewish survivors and theologians respond to catastrophic suffering and reinvent Jewish tradition in the process. The central problem is theodicy (the justification of God in relation to suffering) and anti-theodicy (the refusal of religious thinkers to justify or accept the relation between God and suffering). Part 1 explores first- and second-generation survivors’ accounts of the Holocaust with attention to how trauma shapes memory and representation. We then read classical Jewish responses to catastrophic suffering, including Biblical and Rabbinic sources, and compare these to post-Holocaust accounts. Finally, we examine the theological writings of post-Holocaust thinkers and how they reject and reinvent traditional ideas about God, suffering, and Judaism.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Modern Languages & Cultures - Korean
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
KORE 102-1 Elementary Korean II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1025 1115 Frederick Douglass Room 420 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
14
Instructors: Myounghee Cho
Description: This course is the continuation of KORE 101. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION KORE 102-3. This course will offer students the opportunity to expand their vocabulary and to improve further conversational and grammatical skills beyond those learned in KORE 101. Focus will be on developing listening and speaking skills for everyday personal communication and developing sociocultural knowledge for interactional competence in Korean.
Offered: Spring
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KORE 102-2 Elementary Korean II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 900 950 Frederick Douglass Room 420 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
14
Instructors: Myounghee Cho
Description: This course is the continuation of KORE 101. STUDENT MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION KORE 102-4. This course will offer students the opportunity to expand their vocabulary and to improve further conversational and grammatical skills beyond those learned in KORE 101. Focus will be on developing listening and speaking skills for everyday personal communication and developing sociocultural knowledge for interactional competence in Korean. Students must register for the corresponding recitation.
Offered: Spring
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KORE 152-1 Intermediate Korean II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1150 1240 Frederick Douglass Room 420 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
14
Instructors: Myounghee Cho
Description: This course is the second half of the intermediate course designed for students who have an equivalent proficiency level with KORE 151. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR KORE 152-2. Focus is on equipping students with sociolinguistic and cross-cultural knowledge and achieving the intermediate level of proficiency and fluency in Korean. Four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) will be equally emphasized throughout this course. Students must register for the corresponding recitation.
Offered: Spring
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KORE 202-1 Advanced Intermediate Korean II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Frederick Douglass Room 420 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Myounghee Cho
Description: This course is the second half of the advanced intermediate course designed for students who have an equivalent proficiency level with KOR 152. The students in this course will explore various topics and styles in Korean, and improve their skills of listening, reading, speaking, and writing in Korean to enable them to better comprehend Korean culture and society. The course will be largely content based and task based. Taught in Korean.
Offered: Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Religion & Classics - Latin
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
LATN 101-1 Elementary Latin I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Rush Rhees Library Room 442 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: David Pellegrino
Description: Come learn the language of Vergil, Cicero, and St. Augustine. Latin has been the western world's learned language for 2000 years and is the source for most of the scholarly and technical vocabulary of English. The elementary Latin sequence (LAT 101, LAT 102, LAT 103) is designed to get you reading authentic materials quickly. For LAT 101, no Latin background is required or assumed.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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LATN 103-1 Intermediate Latin Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 900 950 Lattimore Room 413 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Nicholas Gresens
Description: This course will transition students from the study of grammar to reading lengthy prose passages in classical Latin. It will focus on authors from the end of the Roman Republic and will include grammar review and the historical context in which the texts were composed.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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LATN 204-1 Catullus Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Frederick Douglass Room 304 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Mario Morales
Description: A close study of the poems of Catullus.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Linguistics
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
LING 110-1 Intro to Linguistic Analysis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Morey Room 525 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
48
Instructors: Mary Moroney
Description: This course introduces students to the study of the structure of human language. We will cover the six core areas of linguistic investigation: Phonetics (articulation, acoustics, and perception of speech sounds), Phonology (sound patterns), Morphology (internal structure of words and their organization in the mental lexicon), Syntax (internal structure of phrases and sentences), Semantics (word and sentence meaning), and Pragmatics (language use in context). The course focuses on developing skills in the areas of linguistic data analysis and interpretation of linguistic data in ways that aim to address theoretical and empirical issues in the study of language. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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LING 110-2 Intro to Linguistic Analysis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Lattimore Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
36 		Capacity     
48
Instructors: Mary Moroney
Description: This course introduces students to the study of the structure of human language. We will cover the six core areas of linguistic investigation: Phonetics (articulation, acoustics, and perception of speech sounds), Phonology (sound patterns), Morphology (internal structure of words and their organization in the mental lexicon), Syntax (internal structure of phrases and sentences), Semantics (word and sentence meaning), and Pragmatics (language use in context). The course focuses on developing skills in the areas of linguistic data analysis and interpretation of linguistic data in ways that aim to address theoretical and empirical issues in the study of language. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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LING 161-1 Modern English Grammar Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Hylan Building Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: LING 161-1 (P), WRTG 250-2
Instructors: Solveiga Armoskaite
Description: This course is a comprehensive review of the grammar of Modern Standard English. The course will be of interest to those who wish to sharpen their language skills, or to know more about the workings of the English language whether for practical, cognitive or creative ends. Drawing on work in mostly pre-theoretical, descriptive linguistics this course reveals the mechanics of Standard English structure, with occasional detours into the finesse of usage across registers (dialect to slang). Students will learn to develop the ability to see patterns in grammar, as well as its structural possibilities and limits. Assignments will regularly involve reflection on form, usage and speaker judgments. Through a final project, students will investigate some aspect of an English variety available to them. Throughout, students will be working with their data samples of English to explore how speaker choices lead to particular grammatical structures or yield ungrammaticality. Background in linguistics or grammar not needed.
Offered: Spring
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LING 204-1 History of Linguistic Thought Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Lattimore Room 513 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: LING 204-1 (P), LING 404-1
Instructors: Arshia Asudeh
Description: This course looks at key ideas in linguistics, starting in Babylon and Ancient China and working towards the study of meaning in modern linguistic theory and philosophy of language. Among the topics we will look at are: writing and its influence on grammatical traditions; the advent of historical linguistics, linguistic phylogeny, and the comparative method; European structuralism; American structuralism; variation within and across languages; the rise of generative grammar; Chomskys philosophy of linguistics, including competence and I-language; literal meaning and beyond. Students will be expected to read a selection of primary literature and participate actively in class discussion. The course will be assessed by essays (essay questions and reading lists for each essay to be provided). Prerequisites: LING 110 & LING 210 OR LING 220
Offered: Fall Spring
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LING 207-1 Old English Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Frederick Douglass Room 302 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 201-1 (P), ENGL 401-1, HIST 230-1, LING 207-1, LING 407-1
Instructors: Steven Rozenski
Description: At the end of the 5th century, after Roman occupation of Britain had ended, invaders from coastal Germany and the Netherlands settled in England and displaced the  Celtic-speaking population. The language these tribes spoke and wrote gives us the oldest witnesses of perhaps the most influential and widely-spoken language in the world today: English. In this class, we will learn to read the earliest records of English (c. 700-1100) by studying the grammar, vocabulary, and poetics of the period. We will explore the variety of surviving Old English texts - elegies, heroic epic, riddles, religious verse, Latin philosophy (translated in prose and verse), Biblical translation, sermons, charms, maxims, and more - as well as the history of book production during the period. By the end of the term, your new facility in Old English will enable you to read, understand, and translate some of the most beautiful poems ever written. No prerequisites for the course; as pre-1800 as you can get. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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LING 216-1 Speech on the Brain Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Bausch & Lomb Room 270 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
26 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: BCSC 266-1 (P), BME 216-1, BME 416-1, LING 216-1, LING 416-1
Instructors: Joyce McDonough; Laurel Carney
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Spring
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LING 220-1 Intro to Grammatical Systems Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Harkness Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
33 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: LING 220-1 (P), LING 420-1
Instructors: Joanna Pietraszko
Description: This introductory course examines the grammatical structure of sentences from the standpoint of transformational grammar. The course develops the basic techniques of syntactic analysis in order to develop a working theory of a (fragment of) English. The theory is then tested against data from other languages and revised accordingly. LIN 220W partially satisfies the Upper-Level Writing requirement for the Linguistics major. Linguistics majors should take the W version of the course. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop. Prerequisite: LING 110.
Offered: Spring
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LING 224-1 Intro to Computational Ling Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 513 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: LING 224-1 (P), LING 424-1
Instructors: Aaron White
Description: This course covers foundational concepts in computational linguistics and is designed for students with a strong background in formal linguistic methods but only rudimentary programming experience. Major focus is placed on the use of formal languages as a tool for understanding natural language as well as on developing students' ability to implement foundational algorithms pertaining to those formal languages. Topics include basic formal language theory, finite state phonological and morphological parsing, and syntactic parsing for context free grammars and mildly context sensitive formalisms.

Students who have taken the CSC17X series should consult with the instructor prior to enrollment, since there is overlap with a subset of the technical material covered in those courses. Conversely, while it is possible to enter this course with no programming experience and do well, students new to programming may wish to take CSC161 or to attend a CIRC programming bootcamp prior to taking this course.

Prerequisite: LING 110
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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LING 227-1 Topics in Phonetics & Phonology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Lattimore Room 513 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: LING 227-1 (P), LING 427-1
Instructors: Joyce McDonough
Description: This course is intended to provide participants with an overview of research in an area of phonetics and phonology. Issues vary from term to term but may cover areas in segmental, metrical and intonational phonology and the phonology/phonetics interface. Prerequisites: LING 110, LING 210
Offered: Spring
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LING 230-1 Sign Language Structure Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lechase Room 160 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: ASLA 200-1 (P), BCSC 264-1, BCSC 564-1, LING 230-1, LING 430-1
Instructors: Norma Tourangeau
Description: An examination of signed languages and the cognitive constraints that shape them, through a detailed consideration of the structure of American Sign Language and other natural signed languages of the world. Includes training in sign language notation and analysis. Prerequisites: ASL 106 in the immediately preceding semester or permission of the instructor. B or better in ASL 106.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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LING 247-1 Natural Language Processing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Hylan Building Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
47 		Capacity     
48
Co-Located: BCSC 235-1, BCSC 435-1, CSC 247-1 (P), CSC 447-1, LING 247-1, LING 447-1, TCS 447-1
Instructors: Hangfeng He
Description: issues of understanding language in context using commonsense knowledge of the world. Topics will include a survey of English phrase structure and parsing, semantic representation (e.g., events, semantic roles, time, causality and speech acts), and theories and techniques for understanding language in context, including intention recognition, text understanding using knowledge of scripts and plans, and models of spoken dialogue systems (e.g., conversational agents such as Siri). CSC447, the graduate level version of the course, requires a substantial individual project.

Prerequisite: CSC 242
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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LING 250-1 Data Science for Linguistics Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Hylan Building Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: CSC 250-1, CSC 450-1, LING 250-1 (P), LING 450-1
Instructors: Scott Grimm
Description: This course addresses linguistic research questions through data science techniques. The course will focus on developing skills to (i) acquire and process a variety of language data, from using established corpora to capturing data in the wild, and (ii) to investigate language use, particularly syntactic and semantic phenomena, through descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. A significant part of the course will be devoted to hands-on projects and will include developing familiarity with using the programming languages Python and R to acquire and explore linguistic data. Familiarity with statistics and/or computational linguistics is advantageous, but not necessary. Prerequisites: LING 110, and either LING 210, LING 220 or LING 225.
Offered: Spring
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LING 265-2 Formal Semantics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lattimore Room 513 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: LING 265-2 (P), LING 465-2
Instructors: Arshia Asudeh
Description: This course is an in-depth introduction to the formal analysis of natural language meaning, employing techniques that have been developed in language and formal philosophy over the last century. Issues include intensionality, quantification, tense, presupposition, plurality, the analysis of discourse, and other current issues. Familiarity with syntax, logic, and/or computation are helpful.
Offered: Fall Spring
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LING 266-1 Intro to Pragmatics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 513 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: LING 266-1 (P), LING 466-1
Instructors: Scott Grimm
Description: Within theoretical linguistics, pragmatics is (broadly speaking) the study of how language users convey meaning. This course covers three general areas: (1) How meaning carried by linguistic elements (such as sentences) interacts with meaning that arises from inferences about speakers intentions; (2) Ways of characterizing meaning, especially with respect to linguistic elements not easily handled in traditional semantic (i.e., truth-conditional) terms; (3) The role of context in determining meaning. Topics to be discussed include the relation between semantics and pragmatics, representations of context, truth-conditional and other types of meaning, presupposition; implicature and Grices Cooperative Principl
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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LING 389-1 Senior Seminar Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Lattimore Room 513 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: LING 389-1 (P), LING 471-1
Instructors: Nadine Grimm
Description: This is a hands-on class which allows you to work with a language consultant with the goal of writing a grammar sketch or a short research paper. At the end of this course, you will have acquired methods and techniques to describe a language not known to you previously. This includes recording and collection of data, data processing and analysis. The class is an opportunity to apply the knowledge of linguistic theory that you acquired during your major in linguistic research on an unfamiliar language. Another focus of this course is training in grammar writing skills. Ultimately, this course provides you with a solid basis to do fieldwork for language description and linguistic research in your own in the future. Prerequisites: LING 110, LING 210, LING 220, LING 225
Offered: Spring
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LING 389-2 Senior Seminar Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Lattimore Room 513 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Mary Moroney
Description: This is a hands-on class which allows you to work with a language consultant with the goal of writing a grammar sketch or a short research paper. At the end of this course, you will have acquired methods and techniques to describe a language not known to you previously. This includes recording and collection of data, data processing and analysis. The class is an opportunity to apply the knowledge of linguistic theory that you acquired during your major in linguistic research on an unfamiliar language. Another focus of this course is training in grammar writing skills. Ultimately, this course provides you with a solid basis to do fieldwork for language description and linguistic research in your own in the future.
Offered: Spring
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LING 404-1 History of Linguistic Thought Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Lattimore Room 513 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: LING 204-1 (P), LING 404-1
Instructors: Arshia Asudeh
Description: This course looks at key ideas in linguistics, starting in Babylon and Ancient China and working towards the study of meaning in modern linguistic theory and philosophy of language. Among the topics we will look at are: writing and its influence on grammatical traditions; the advent of historical linguistics, linguistic phylogeny, and the comparative method; European structuralism; American structuralism; variation within and across languages; the rise of generative grammar; Chomsky’s philosophy of linguistics, including competence and I-language; literal meaning and beyond. Students will be expected to read a selection of primary literature and participate actively in class discussion. The course will be assessed by essays (essay questions and readings lists for each essay to be provided). Prerequisites: LING 410 OR LING 420
Offered: Fall Spring
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LING 407-1 Old English Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Frederick Douglass Room 302 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 201-1 (P), ENGL 401-1, HIST 230-1, LING 207-1, LING 407-1
Instructors: Steven Rozenski
Description:  At the end of the 5th century, after Roman occupation of Britain had ended, invaders from coastal Germany and the Netherlands settled in England and displaced the  Celtic-speaking population. The language these tribes spoke and wrote gives us the oldest witnesses of perhaps the most influential and widely-spoken language in the world today: English. In this class, we will learn to read the earliest records of English (c. 700-1100) by studying the grammar, vocabulary, and poetics of the period. We will explore the variety of surviving Old English texts - elegies, heroic epic, riddles, religious verse, Latin philosophy (translated in prose and verse), Biblical translation, sermons, charms, maxims, and more - as well as the history of book production during the period. By the end of the term, your new facility in Old English will enable you to read, understand, and translate some of the most beautiful poems ever written. No prerequisites for the course; as pre-1800 as you can get.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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LING 416-1 Speech on the Brain Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Bausch & Lomb Room 270 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
26 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: BCSC 266-1 (P), BME 216-1, BME 416-1, LING 216-1, LING 416-1
Instructors: Joyce McDonough; Laurel Carney
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Spring
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LING 420-1 Intro to Grammatical Systems Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Harkness Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
33 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: LING 220-1 (P), LING 420-1
Instructors: Joanna Pietraszko
Description: This introductory course examines the grammatical structure of sentences from the standpoint of transformational grammar. The course develops the basic techniques of syntactic analysis in order to develop a working theory of a (fragment of) English. The theory is then tested against data from other languages and revised accordingly.
Offered: Spring
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LING 424-1 Intro to Computational Lin Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 513 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: LING 224-1 (P), LING 424-1
Instructors: Aaron White
Description:

This course covers foundational concepts in computational linguistics and is designed for students with a strong background in formal linguistic methods but only rudimentary programming experience. Major focus is placed on the use of formal languages as a tool for understanding natural language as well as on developing students' ability to implement foundational algorithms pertaining to those formal languages. Topics include basic formal language theory, finite state phonological and morphological parsing, and syntactic parsing for context free grammars and mildly context sensitive formalisms.

Students who have taken the CSC17X series should consult with the instructor prior to enrollment, since there is overlap with a subset of the technical material covered in those courses. Conversely, while it is possible to enter this course with no programming experience and do well, students new to programming may wish to take CSC161 or to attend a CIRC programming bootcamp prior to taking this course.
Offered: Fall Spring
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LING 427-1 Topics in Phonetics & Phonology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1525 Lattimore Room 513 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: LING 227-1 (P), LING 427-1
Instructors: Joyce McDonough
Description: This course is intended to provide participants with an overview of research in an area of phonetics and phonology. Issues vary from term to term but may cover areas in segmental, metrical and intonational phonology and the phonology/phonetics interface.
Offered: Spring
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LING 430-1 Sign Language Structure Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lechase Room 160 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: ASLA 200-1 (P), BCSC 264-1, BCSC 564-1, LING 230-1, LING 430-1
Instructors: Norma Tourangeau
Description: An examination of signed languages and the cognitive constraints that shape them, through a detailed consideration of the structure of American Sign Language and other natural signed languages of the world. Includes training in sign language notation and analysis. Prerequisites: ASL 106 in the immediately preceding semester or permission of the instructor. B or better in ASL 106.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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LING 447-1 Natural Language Processing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Hylan Building Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
47 		Capacity     
48
Co-Located: BCSC 235-1, BCSC 435-1, CSC 247-1 (P), CSC 447-1, LING 247-1, LING 447-1, TCS 447-1
Instructors: Hangfeng He
Description: This course addresses issues of representing computing meaning from natural language, especially issues of understanding language in context using commonsense knowledge of the world. Topics will include a survey of English phrase structure and parsing, semantic representation (e.g., events, semantic roles, time, causality and speech acts), and theories and techniques for understanding language in context, including intention recognition, text understanding using knowledge of scripts and plans, and models of spoken dialogue systems (e.g., conversational agents such as Siri). CSC447, the graduate level version of the course, requires a substantial individual project.

Prerequisites: CSC 242
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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LING 450-1 Data Science for Linguistics Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Hylan Building Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: CSC 250-1, CSC 450-1, LING 250-1 (P), LING 450-1
Instructors: Scott Grimm
Description: This course addresses linguistic research questions through data science techniques. The course will focus on developing skills to (i) acquire and process a variety of language data, from using established corpora to capturing data in the wild, and (ii) to investigate language use, particularly syntactic and semantic phenomena, through descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. A significant part of the course will be devoted to hands-on projects and will include developing familiarity with using the programming languages Python and R to acquire and explore linguistic data. Familiarity with statistics and/or computational linguistics is advantageous, but not necessary.
Offered: Spring
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LING 465-2 Formal Semantics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lattimore Room 513 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: LING 265-2 (P), LING 465-2
Instructors: Arshia Asudeh
Description: This course is an in-depth introduction to the formal analysis of natural language meaning, employing techniques that have been developed in language and formal philosophy over the last century. Issues include intensionality, quantification, tense, presupposition, plurality, the analysis of discourse, and other current issues. Familiarity with syntax, logic, and/or computation are helpful.
Offered: Spring
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LING 466-1 Intro to Pragmatics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 513 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: LING 266-1 (P), LING 466-1
Instructors: Scott Grimm
Description: Within theoretical linguistics, pragmatics is (broadly speaking) the study of how language users convey meaning. This course covers three general areas: (1) How meaning carried by linguistic elements (such as sentences) interacts with meaning that arises from inferences about speakers intentions; (2) Ways of characterizing meaning, especially with respect to linguistic elements not easily handled in traditional semantic (i.e., truth-conditional) terms; (3) The role of context in determining meaning. Topics to be discussed include the relation between semantics and pragmatics, representations of context, truth-conditional and other types of meaning, presupposition; implicature and Grices Cooperative Principle
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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LING 471-1 Field Methods I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Lattimore Room 513 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: LING 389-1 (P), LING 471-1
Instructors: Nadine Grimm
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This class is similar to LIN389: Students will learn how to organize a fieldwork project by working with a native speaker. They will systematically prepare elicitation sessions, organize their data, and learn how to write up short sketches of their findings. The final project is a chapter of a joint sketch grammar of the language, including annotated natural text.In contrast to the senior seminar, however, this course is designed for two terms, continuing in the fall term. Also, participants are required to have taken LIN270/470 as a prerequisite. Having a background in language documentation and data processing techniques, students in this class will focus more on collecting and annotating natural texts (stories, dialogues, experimental data) which is adding a documentary angle.
Offered: Fall Spring
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LING 589-1 Graduate Field Methods Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Hylan Building Room 303 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Nadine Grimm; Joanna Pietraszko
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LING 590-1 Supervised Teaching Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
3
Instructors: Nadine Grimm
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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LING 590-2 Supervised Teaching Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
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0 		Capacity     
3
Instructors: Scott Grimm
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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LING 590-3 Supervised Teaching Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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0 		Capacity     
3
Instructors: Maya Abtahian
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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LING 590-4 Supervised Teaching Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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0 		Capacity     
3
Instructors: Joanna Pietraszko
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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LING 590-5 Supervised Teaching Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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0 		Capacity     
3
Instructors: Aaron White
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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LING 590-6 Supervised Teaching Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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0 		Capacity     
3
Instructors: Joyce McDonough
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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LING 590-7 Supervised Teaching Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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0 		Capacity     
3
Instructors: Arshia Asudeh
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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LING 590-8 Supervised Teaching Spring 2023 1.0 Open
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0 		Capacity     
3
Instructors: Karl Sarvestani
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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LING 590-9 Supervised Teaching Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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1 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Mary Moroney
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Literary Translation Studies
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
LTST 206-2 Translation&World Literature Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Meliora Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: CLTR 284-1, CLTR 484-1, ENGL 287-2, LTST 206-2 (P), LTST 406-1
Instructors: Chad Post
Description: The focus of World Literature in Translation is to examine what makes a translation 'successful' as a translation. By reading a series of recently translated works (some contemporary, some retranslations of modern classics), and by talking with translators, we will have the opportunity to discuss both specific and general issues that come up while translating a given text. Young translators will be exposed to a lot of practical advice throughout this class, helping to refine their approach to their own translations, and will expand their understanding of various practices and possibilities for the art and craft of literary translation.
Offered: Spring
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LTST 231-1 French Literature in Translation Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lechase Room 160 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: FREN 212-1 (P), FREN 412-1, LTST 231-1, LTST 431-1
Instructors: Julie Papaioannou
Description: Course offers extensive practice in textual analysis and translation of selected literary texts from French to English. Mainly contemporary, all selected texts have originally been written in French, come from various cultural backgrounds and address different stylistic levels. Theoretical approaches to translation with focus on literature will be discussed, and exercises on grammar and syntax review from English to French will also be introduced. Open Pedagogy approach and workshop-based classwork. Prerequisite: FREN 200 or instructor permission.
Offered: Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
LTST 263-1 Translation: Interpreting & Adapting Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Hylan Building Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: ENGL 289-1, LTST 263-1, WRTG 263-1 (P)
Instructors: Stella Wang
Description: This course takes up translation process as an object of study. How do translators work? What opportunities and constraints are present for freelance, specialist, or professional translators? To what extent do translators not only transmit but actively create knowledge and build community via their work of interpreting and adapting? We’ll explore a range of potentially high-stakes cases involving textual, audiovisual, and multimodal renditions of a source text. These may include translating an ad or museum label; subbing a TED Talk or performance; dubbing in anime or games; interpreting for business, medical, or other purposes. Along with course readings and short experimental translations, students will work with our paraprofessional consultants and community partners in SW Rochester to craft final projects that provide a meaningful extension of course learning to real-world issues (Counts toward the Citation in Community-Engaged Scholarship; see Authentically Urban, Virtually Global: Southwest Rochester).
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
LTST 396-1 Intro to Literary Publishing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lechase Room 148 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: ENGL 267-1, LTST 396-1 (P), LTST 410-1
Instructors: Chad Post
Description: This course runs in combination with an internship at Open Letter Books and focuses on explaining the basics of the business of literary publishing: editing, marketing, promoting, fundraising, ebooks, the future of bookselling, etc. Literature in translation is emphasized in this class, and all the topics covered tie in with the various projects interns work on for Open Letter Books.
Offered: Fall Spring
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LTST 406-1 Translation&World Literature Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Meliora Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: CLTR 284-1, CLTR 484-1, ENGL 287-2, LTST 206-2 (P), LTST 406-1
Instructors: Chad Post
Description: The focus of World Literature in Translation is to examine what makes a translation 'successful' as a translation. By reading a series of recently translated works (some contemporary, some retranslations of modern classics), and by talking with translators, we will have the opportunity to discuss both specific and general issues that come up while translating a given text. Young translators will be exposed to a lot of practical advice throughout this class, helping to refine their approach to their own translations, and will expand their understanding of various practices and possibilities for the art and craft of literary translation.
Offered: Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
LTST 410-1 Into to Literary Publishing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lechase Room 148 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: ENGL 267-1, LTST 396-1 (P), LTST 410-1
Instructors: Chad Post
Description: This course runs in combination with an internship at Open Letter Books and focuses on explaining the basics of the business of literary publishing: editing, marketing, promoting, fundraising, ebooks, the future of bookselling, etc. Literature in translation is emphasized in this class, and all the topics covered tie in with the various projects interns work on for Open Letter Books.
Offered: Fall Spring
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LTST 431-1 French Literature in Translation Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lechase Room 160 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: FREN 212-1 (P), FREN 412-1, LTST 231-1, LTST 431-1
Instructors: Julie Papaioannou
Description: Course offers extensive practice in textual analysis and translation of selected literary texts from French to English. Mainly contemporary, all selected texts have originally been written in French, come from various cultural backgrounds and address different stylistic levels. Theoretical approaches to translation with focus on literature will be discussed, and exercises on grammar and syntax review from English to French will also be introduced. Open Pedagogy approach and workshop-based classwork. Prerequisite: FREN 200 or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Mathematics
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MATH 141-1 Calculus I Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Harkness Room 115 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
46 		Capacity     
45
Instructors: Jorge Olivares Vinales
Description: Class Info: YOU MUST REGISTER FOR A RECITATION WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN COURSE.

Prerequisites: MTH 141

Course Description: Analysis of the elementary real functions: algebraic, trigonometric, exponentials and their inverses and composites. Their graphs and derivatives. Topics include limits, continuity, asymptotes, the definition of the derivative, derivatives and derivative rules for algebraic, trigonometric, exponentials, and logarithms. Implicit differentiation, related rates, linear appoximation, differentials, mean value theorem, maxima and minima, curve sketchings, l'Hospital's rule. MTH 141, 142, and 143 is a three-semester sequence that covers, at a slower pace, exactly the same material as the two-semester sequence, MTH 161 and 162. This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time. This course cannot be taken for credit after completing any of MTH 141, 142, 143, 161, or 162. Students who want to repeat a course for a grade need to secure the approval of the Dean by completing an online Repeat Course Request Form.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MATH 141-2 Calculus I Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
74 		Capacity     
70
Instructors: Eric Hopper
Description: Class Info: YOU MUST REGISTER FOR A RECITATION WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN COURSE.

Prerequisites: MTH 141

Course Description: Analysis of the elementary real functions: algebraic, trigonometric, exponentials and their inverses and composites. Their graphs and derivatives. Topics include limits, continuity, asymptotes, the definition of the derivative, derivatives and derivative rules for algebraic, trigonometric, exponentials, and logarithms. Implicit differentiation, related rates, linear appoximation, differentials, mean value theorem, maxima and minima, curve sketchings, l'Hospital's rule. MTH 141, 142, and 143 is a three-semester sequence that covers, at a slower pace, exactly the same material as the two-semester sequence, MTH 161 and 162. This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time. This course cannot be taken for credit after completing any of MTH 141, 142, 143, 161, or 162. Students who want to repeat a course for a grade need to secure the approval of the Dean by completing an online Repeat Course Request Form.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MATH 142-1 Calculus II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Dewey Room 2162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
81 		Capacity     
90
Instructors: Mark Herman
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Prerequisites: MATH 141

Description: Calculus of algebraic, logarithmic, exponential, and trigonometric functions and their inverses. The definite integral, the fundamental theorem of calculus, geometric and physical applications including areas, volumes, work, and arc length. Techniques of integration including substitution rule, integration by parts, trigonometric substitution, partial fractions. Improper integrals. This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time. This course cannot be taken for credit after completing MATH 143 or 162. Students who want to repeat a course for a grade need to secure the approval of the Dean by completing an online Repeat Course Request Form.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MATH 142-13 Calculus II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lattimore Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
41 		Capacity     
90
Instructors: Carissa Slone
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Prerequisites: MATH 141

Description: Calculus of algebraic, logarithmic, exponential, and trigonometric functions and their inverses. The definite integral, the fundamental theorem of calculus, geometric and physical applications including areas, volumes, work, and arc length. Techniques of integration including substitution rule, integration by parts, trigonometric substitution, partial fractions. Improper integrals. This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time. This course cannot be taken for credit after completing MATH 143 or 162. Students who want to repeat a course for a grade need to secure the approval of the Dean by completing an online Repeat Course Request Form.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MATH 142-14 Calculus II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Hylan Building Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
45
Instructors: Vanessa Matus De La Par
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Prerequisites: MATH 141

Description: Calculus of algebraic, logarithmic, exponential, and trigonometric functions and their inverses. The definite integral, the fundamental theorem of calculus, geometric and physical applications including areas, volumes, work, and arc length. Techniques of integration including substitution rule, integration by parts, trigonometric substitution, partial fractions. Improper integrals. This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time. This course cannot be taken for credit after completing MATH 143 or 162. Students who want to repeat a course for a grade need to secure the approval of the Dean by completing an online Repeat Course Request Form.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MATH 142-2 Calculus II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Harkness Room 115 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
55 		Capacity     
80
Instructors: Surena Hozoori
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Prerequisites: MATH 141

Description: Calculus of algebraic, logarithmic, exponential, and trigonometric functions and their inverses. The definite integral, the fundamental theorem of calculus, geometric and physical applications including areas, volumes, work, and arc length. Techniques of integration including substitution rule, integration by parts, trigonometric substitution, partial fractions. Improper integrals. This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time. This course cannot be taken for credit after completing MATH 143 or 162. Students who want to repeat a course for a grade need to secure the approval of the Dean by completing an online Repeat Course Request Form.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MATH 143-1 Calculus III Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Goergen Hall Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
33 		Capacity     
50
Instructors: Matthew Dannenberg
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Prerequisites: MTH 141, MTH 142.

Description: This is the third semester of a three-semester calculus sequence. Calculus with parametric curves and polar coordinates. Sequences, series, tests for convergence including comparison tests, integral test, alternating series test, ratio test, root test. Taylor and Maclaurin series. This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time. This course cannot be taken for credit after completing MTH 162. Students who want to repeat a course for a grade need to secure the approval of the Dean by completing an online Repeat Course Request Form.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MATH 143-2 Calculus III Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Computer Studies Room 601 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
40 		Capacity     
45
Instructors: Mary Cook
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Prerequisites: MTH 141, MTH 142.

Description: This is the third semester of a three-semester calculus sequence. Calculus with parametric curves and polar coordinates. Sequences, series, tests for convergence including comparison tests, integral test, alternating series test, ratio test, root test. Taylor and Maclaurin series. This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time. This course cannot be taken for credit after completing MTH 162. Students who want to repeat a course for a grade need to secure the approval of the Dean by completing an online Repeat Course Request Form.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MATH 150-1 Discrete Mathematics Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Harkness Room 115 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
80 		Capacity     
80
Instructors: Jonathan Pakianathan
Description: Logic, functions, algorithms, mathematical reasoning, mathematical induction, recurrence relations, techniques of counting, equivalence relations, graphs, trees. Required for Computer Science majors.This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MATH 150-2 Discrete Mathematics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Dewey Room 2162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
46 		Capacity     
80
Instructors: Sergio Chaves
Description: Logic, functions, algorithms, mathematical reasoning, mathematical induction, recurrence relations, techniques of counting, equivalence relations, graphs, trees. Required for Computer Science majors.This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MATH 150A-1 Discrete Math Module 171q Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Jonathan Pakianathan
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Prerequisites: Permission of instructor required. This module is only open to students in honors calculus.

Description: Passing the course will grant a waiver to the MTH 150 requirement for the Computer Science program, but does not fulfill any other requirements that MTH 150 may fulfill.This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MATH 161-1 Calculus Ia Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Goergen Hall Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
61 		Capacity     
70
Instructors: Carlos Chirre Chavez
Description: Class Info: YOU MUST REGISTER FOR A RECITATION WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN COURSE.

Description: Elementary real functions: algebraic, trigonometric, exponential, their inverses, graphs, derivatives and integrals; limits, l'Hopital's rules, Mean value theorem, maxima and minima, curve plotting. The fundamental theorem of calculus, with geometric and physical applications, substitution rule for integration. This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time. Students can drop from MTH 161 to MTH 141 up to one week following the first exam in MTH 161. Interested students should speak with their professor for details. This course cannot be taken for credit after completing any of MTH 141, 142, 143, or 162. Students who want to repeat a course for a grade need to secure the approval of the Dean by completing an online Repeat Course Request Form.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MATH 161-2 Calculus Ia Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Computer Studies Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
69 		Capacity     
70
Instructors: Surena Hozoori
Description: Class Info: YOU MUST REGISTER FOR A RECITATION WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN COURSE.

Description: Elementary real functions: algebraic, trigonometric, exponential, their inverses, graphs, derivatives and integrals; limits, l'Hopital's rules, Mean value theorem, maxima and minima, curve plotting. The fundamental theorem of calculus, with geometric and physical applications, substitution rule for integration. This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time. Students can drop from MTH 161 to MTH 141 up to one week following the first exam in MTH 161. Interested students should speak with their professor for details. This course cannot be taken for credit after completing any of MTH 141, 142, 143, or 162. Students who want to repeat a course for a grade need to secure the approval of the Dean by completing an online Repeat Course Request Form.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MATH 162-1 Calculus IIA Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Hutchison Hall Room 140 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
27 		Capacity     
80
Instructors: Saul Lubkin
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Prerequisites: MATH 161 or equivalent.

Description: Techniques of integration, improper integrals, applications to geometry and physics. Infinite series, Taylor series in one variable. Plane curves, parametric equations, polar coordinates, arc length. NOTE: Either MATH 164 or 165 can be taken after MATH 162 or 143. This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time. Students can drop from MATH 162 to MATH 142 up to one week following the first exam in MATH 162. Interested students should speak with their professor for details. This course cannot be taken for credit after completing MATH 143. Students who want to repeat a course for a grade need to secure the approval of the Dean by completing an online Repeat Course Request Form.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MATH 162-11 Calculus IIA Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Gavett Hall Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
26 		Capacity     
75
Instructors: Sefika Kuzgun
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Prerequisites: MATH 161 or equivalent.

Description: Techniques of integration, improper integrals, applications to geometry and physics. Infinite series, Taylor series in one variable. Plane curves, parametric equations, polar coordinates, arc length. NOTE: Either MATH 164 or 165 can be taken after MATH 162 or 143. This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time. Students can drop from MATH 162 to MATH 142 up to one week following the first exam in MATH 162. Interested students should speak with their professor for details. This course cannot be taken for credit after completing MATH 143. Students who want to repeat a course for a grade need to secure the approval of the Dean by completing an online Repeat Course Request Form.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MATH 162-2 Calculus IIA Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Wegmans Room 1400 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
80 		Capacity     
80
Instructors: Emmett Wyman
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Prerequisites: MATH 161 or equivalent.

Description: Techniques of integration, improper integrals, applications to geometry and physics. Infinite series, Taylor series in one variable. Plane curves, parametric equations, polar coordinates, arc length. NOTE: Either MATH 164 or 165 can be taken after MATH 162 or 143. This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time. Students can drop from MATH 162 to MATH 142 up to one week following the first exam in MATH 162. Interested students should speak with their professor for details. This course cannot be taken for credit after completing MATH 143. Students who want to repeat a course for a grade need to secure the approval of the Dean by completing an online Repeat Course Request Form.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MATH 162-3 Calculus IIA Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Dewey Room 2162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
90 		Capacity     
90
Instructors: Emmett Wyman
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Prerequisites: MATH 161 or equivalent.

Description: Techniques of integration, improper integrals, applications to geometry and physics. Infinite series, Taylor series in one variable. Plane curves, parametric equations, polar coordinates, arc length. NOTE: Either MATH 164 or 165 can be taken after MATH 162 or 143. This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time. Students can drop from MATH 162 to MATH 142 up to one week following the first exam in MATH 162. Interested students should speak with their professor for details. This course cannot be taken for credit after completing MATH 143. Students who want to repeat a course for a grade need to secure the approval of the Dean by completing an online Repeat Course Request Form.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 162-4 Calculus IIA Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Morey Room 321 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
77 		Capacity     
80
Instructors: Bogdan Krstic
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Prerequisites: MATH 161 or equivalent.

Description: Techniques of integration, improper integrals, applications to geometry and physics. Infinite series, Taylor series in one variable. Plane curves, parametric equations, polar coordinates, arc length. NOTE: Either MATH 164 or 165 can be taken after MATH 162 or 143. This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time. Students can drop from MATH 162 to MATH 142 up to one week following the first exam in MATH 162. Interested students should speak with their professor for details. This course cannot be taken for credit after completing MATH 143. Students who want to repeat a course for a grade need to secure the approval of the Dean by completing an online Repeat Course Request Form.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 164-1 Multidimensional Calculus Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Dewey Room 2162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
71 		Capacity     
80
Instructors: Sema Salur
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Prerequisites: MATH 143, MATH 162, or MATH 172.

Description: Equations of lines and planes, quadric surfaces, space curves, partial derivatives, linear approximation, directional derivatives, extrema, Lagrange multipliers, double/triple integrals including cylindrical and spherical coordinates. Line, surface, and volume integrals, divergence theorem, Stokes' theorem. MATH 162 (or equivalent) is a strict prerequisite and must be completed before taking MATH 164. MATH 162 and 164 cannot be taken concurrently. This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 164-3 Multidimensional Calculus Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Meliora Room 221 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
49 		Capacity     
80
Instructors: Eyup Yalcinkaya
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Prerequisites: MATH 143, MATH 162, or MATH 172.

Description: Equations of lines and planes, quadric surfaces, space curves, partial derivatives, linear approximation, directional derivatives, extrema, Lagrange multipliers, double/triple integrals including cylindrical and spherical coordinates. Line, surface, and volume integrals, divergence theorem, Stokes' theorem. MATH 162 (or equivalent) is a strict prerequisite and must be completed before taking MATH 164. MATH 162 and 164 cannot be taken concurrently. This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 164-4 Multidimensional Calculus Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Bausch & Lomb Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
84 		Capacity     
85
Instructors: Sema Salur
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Prerequisites: MATH 143, MATH 162, or MATH 172.

Description: Equations of lines and planes, quadric surfaces, space curves, partial derivatives, linear approximation, directional derivatives, extrema, Lagrange multipliers, double/triple integrals including cylindrical and spherical coordinates. Line, surface, and volume integrals, divergence theorem, Stokes' theorem. MATH 162 (or equivalent) is a strict prerequisite and must be completed before taking MATH 164. MATH 162 and 164 cannot be taken concurrently. This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MATH 165-1 Linear Algebra W/Diff. Equ Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Gavett Hall Room 310 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
38 		Capacity     
48
Instructors: Anurag Sahay
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Matrix algebra and inverses, Gaussian elimination, determinants, vector spaces, eigenvalue problems. First order differential equations, linear second order differential equations with constant coefficients, undetermined coefficients, linear systems of differential equations. Applications to physical, engineering, and life sciences. MATH 162 (or equivalent) is a strict prerequisite and must be completed before taking 165. MATH 162 and 165 cannot be taken concurrently. This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time.

Prerequisites: MATH 143, 162, or MATH 172. NOTE: MATH 164 is not a prerequisite for MATH 165. Due to overlapping content, it is not recommended to take both MATH 163 and 165.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 165-2 Linear Algebra W/Diff. Equ Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
52 		Capacity     
60
Instructors: Min Sik Han
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Matrix algebra and inverses, Gaussian elimination, determinants, vector spaces, eigenvalue problems. First order differential equations, linear second order differential equations with constant coefficients, undetermined coefficients, linear systems of differential equations. Applications to physical, engineering, and life sciences. MATH 162 (or equivalent) is a strict prerequisite and must be completed before taking 165. MATH 162 and 165 cannot be taken concurrently. This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time.

Prerequisites: MATH 143, 162, or MATH 172. NOTE: MATH 164 is not a prerequisite for MATH 165. Due to overlapping content, it is not recommended to take both MATH 163 and 165.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 165-3 Linear Algebra W/Diff. Equ Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Dewey Room 2162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
78 		Capacity     
90
Instructors: Dan Geba
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Matrix algebra and inverses, Gaussian elimination, determinants, vector spaces, eigenvalue problems. First order differential equations, linear second order differential equations with constant coefficients, undetermined coefficients, linear systems of differential equations. Applications to physical, engineering, and life sciences. MATH 162 (or equivalent) is a strict prerequisite and must be completed before taking 165. MATH 162 and 165 cannot be taken concurrently. This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time.

Prerequisites: MATH 143, 162, or MATH 172. NOTE: MATH 164 is not a prerequisite for MATH 165. Due to overlapping content, it is not recommended to take both MATH 163 and 165.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 165-4 Linear Algebra W/Diff. Equ Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Dewey Room 2162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
90 		Capacity     
90
Instructors: Joshua Sumpter
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Matrix algebra and inverses, Gaussian elimination, determinants, vector spaces, eigenvalue problems. First order differential equations, linear second order differential equations with constant coefficients, undetermined coefficients, linear systems of differential equations. Applications to physical, engineering, and life sciences. MATH 162 (or equivalent) is a strict prerequisite and must be completed before taking 165. MATH 162 and 165 cannot be taken concurrently. This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time.

Prerequisites: MATH 143, 162, or MATH 172. NOTE: MATH 164 is not a prerequisite for MATH 165. Due to overlapping content, it is not recommended to take both MATH 163 and 165.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MATH 172-1 Honors Calculus II Spring 2023 5.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Hylan Building Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
45
Instructors: Steven Gonek
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Prerequisites: MATH 171

Description: This course is a continuation of MATH 171. Note: The honors calculus sequence regulation requires that students earn at least a B- in honors calculus to continue to the next course in sequence
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 174-1 Honors Calculus IV Spring 2023 5.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Morey Room 525 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
31 		Capacity     
40
Instructors: Alex Iosevich
Description: This course is a continuation of MATH 173.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 200-1 Transition to Higher Math Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Meliora Room 224 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: MATH 200-1 (P), MATH 200W-1
Instructors: Allan Greenleaf
Restrictions: Not open to seniors- AS&E
Description: Prerequisites: MATH 162 or equivalent.

Description: Techniques and methods of proof used in mathematics and computer science. Logical reasoning, mathematical induction, relations, functions. Applications to group theory or real analysis.A significant focus of this course is developing proof writing skills, which are central to the transition to higher mathematics. Students cannot take MATH 200 for credit after completion of MATH 172 or 235. Students wishing an exception can petition the mathematics department undergraduate committee by emailing mathdugs@lists.rochester.edu.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MATH 200W-1 Transition to Higher Math Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Meliora Room 224 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
5
Co-Located: MATH 200-1 (P), MATH 200W-1
Instructors: Allan Greenleaf
Restrictions: Not open to seniors- AS&E
Description: Cross-listed with Math 200

Descriiption: Writing intensive version of Math 200
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 201-1 Intro to Probability Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
67 		Capacity     
70
Co-Located: MATH 201-1 (P), STAT 201-1
Instructors: Joshua Sumpter
Description: Cross Listed: MTH 201 (P), STT 201

Prerequisites: MTH 162 or equivalent, MTH 164 recommended. Same as STT 201.

Description: Probability spaces; combinatorial problems; random variables and expectations; discrete and continuous distributions; generating functions; independence and dependence; binomial, normal, and Poisson laws; laws of large numbers. MTH 162 (or equivalent) is a strict prerequisite and must be completed before taking 201. MTH 162 and 201 cannot be taken concurrently.This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time.
Offered: Fall Spring
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MATH 201-2 Intro to Probability Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
79 		Capacity     
95
Co-Located: MATH 201-2 (P), STAT 201-2
Instructors: Sevak Mkrtchyan
Description: Cross Listed: MTH 201 (P), STT 201

Prerequisites: MTH 162 or equivalent, MTH 164 recommended. Same as STT 201.

Description: Probability spaces; combinatorial problems; random variables and expectations; discrete and continuous distributions; generating functions; independence and dependence; binomial, normal, and Poisson laws; laws of large numbers. MTH 162 (or equivalent) is a strict prerequisite and must be completed before taking 201. MTH 162 and 201 cannot be taken concurrently.This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time.
Offered: Fall Spring
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MATH 202-1 Intro to Stoch Proc Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Gavett Hall Room 312 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
40
Instructors: Arjun Krishnan
Description: Prerequisites: MATH 201.

Description: Theory and applications of random processes, including Markov chains, Poisson processes, birth-and-death processes, random walks.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 203-1 Intro to Math Statistics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Lattimore Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
62 		Capacity     
90
Co-Located: MATH 203-1, STAT 203-1 (P)
Instructors: Javier Bautista
Description: Cross Listed: MTH 203 (P), STT 203

Prerequisites: MTH 201

Description: Discrete and continuous probability distributions and their properties. Principle of statistical estimation and inference. Point and interval estimation. Maximum likelihood method for estimation and inference. Tests of hypotheses and confidence intervals, contingency tables, and related topics.
Offered: Fall Spring
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MATH 209-1 Operations Research II: Stochastic Models and Queueing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Hylan Building Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Mark Herman
Description:

Prerequisites

MTH 208 and MTH 201. MTH 202 is helpful but not necessary.

This course covers stochastic models, queueing theory, and decision making in the presence of uncertainty. Applications, such as supply-chain modeling, vaccine distribution, and the newsvendor problem are explored extensively.

Topics covered

Newsvendor problem, Little’s law, queueing theory, Markov decision processes, supply-chain modeling and pooling, multi-echelon systems, effects of uncertainty and the bullwhip effect.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 210-1 Intro to Financial Mathemtcs Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Meliora Room 221 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
27 		Capacity     
85
Instructors: Sefika Kuzgun
Description: Prerequisites: FIN 205 and 206 and (MTH 143 or 162) and (one of STT 211, 212, 213, ECO 230, or MTH 201).

Description: Mathematical concepts and techniques underlying finance theory; arbitrage pricing theory and option pricing. Finance track and FEC students should take FIN 205/206 before MTH 210. Other students can seek instructor permission.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 218-1 Intro Math Mod-Soc&Life Sci Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Bausch & Lomb Room 270 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
35
Instructors: Carissa Slone
Description: Prerequisites: Math 162, or Math 143, or Math 172

This course is aimed at building problem-solving ability in students through the development of mathematical models for certain real-life situations in the biological sciences. Models treated cover a variety of phenomena both discrete and continuous, linear and non-linear, deterministic and stochastic. Some topics that might be treated are Leslie Matrices in Demographics, Exponential and Logistic growth, Gompertz growth in tumors, Hardy-Weinberg Law in population genetics, Lotka-Volterra predator-prey systems, principle of competitive exclusion, the Kermack-McKendrick model of epidemics (and variants), Markov chain models (with the requisite intro to probability) and the stochastic pure birth process and epidemic models.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 225-1 Intermediate Logic Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Harkness Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: MATH 225-1, PHIL 215-1 (P), PHIL 415-1
Instructors: Paul Audi
Description: PREREQUISITE: One previous Philosophy course required

This course is an introduction to metalogic. Topics covered include basic elements of set theory, and the model-theoretic treatment of sentential and first-order logic (completeness, compactness, and Lwenheim-Skolem theorems).
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 233-1 Mathematical Cryptograph Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Hylan Building Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
40
Instructors: Min Sik Han
Description: Prerequisites: Some mathematical sophistication required. MTH 162 or 171 or 230 recommended.

Description: A mathematically-oriented inroduction to modern cryptography: weaknesses of historical cryptosystems, modular arithmetic, primality testing and factorization algorithms, private-key/symmetric cryptosystems, public-key/asymmetric cryptosystems and key-sharing (including RSA and Diffie-Hellman). Additional topics may include zero-knowledge protocols, digital signatures, homomorphic encryption and secured computation, elliptic curve cryptography, lattice-based cryptography, and other applications such as digital voting and cryptocurrencies. The course will include a technical paper exploring a modern topic of each student’s choice.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 235-1 Linear Algebra Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: MATH 235-1 (P), MATH 235W-1
Instructors: Stephen Kleene
Description: Prerequisites: MTH 165. MTH 200W recommended.

Description: Finite-dimensional vector spaces over R and C axiomatically and with coordinate calculations. Forms, linear transformations, matrices, eigenspaces, inner products.This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 235-4 Linear Algebra Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Hylan Building Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
36 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: MATH 235-4 (P), MATH 235W-2
Instructors: Kalyani Madhu
Description: Prerequisites: MTH 165. MTH 200W recommended.

Description: Finite-dimensional vector spaces over R and C axiomatically and with coordinate calculations. Forms, linear transformations, matrices, eigenspaces, inner products.This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 235W-1 Linear Algebra Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
5
Co-Located: MATH 235-1 (P), MATH 235W-1
Instructors: Stephen Kleene
Description: Cross-listed with MATH 235

Description: Writing intensive version of MATH 235
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MATH 235W-2 Linear Algebra Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Hylan Building Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
5
Co-Located: MATH 235-4 (P), MATH 235W-2
Instructors: Kalyani Madhu
Description: Cross-listed with MATH 235

Description: Writing intensive version of MATH 235
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 236-1 Intro to Algebra I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: MATH 236-1 (P), MATH 236W-1
Instructors: Sergio Chaves
Description: Prerequisites: MATH 235 or 173.

Description: Basic algebraic structures, including groups, rings, and fields with applications to specific examples.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 236-2 Intro to Algebra I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: MATH 236-2 (P), MATH 236W-2
Instructors: Arda Huseyin Demirhan
Description: Basic algebraic structures, including groups, rings, and fields with applications to specific examples.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 236H-2 Intro to Algebra I (Honors) Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Gavett Hall Room 310 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: MATH 236H-2 (P), MATH 236HW-1
Instructors: Jonathan Pakianathan
Description: Prerequisites: MATH 235 or 173.

Description: Honors version of MATH 236.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 236HW-1 Intro to Algebra I (Honors) Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Gavett Hall Room 310 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
5
Co-Located: MATH 236H-2 (P), MATH 236HW-1
Instructors: Jonathan Pakianathan
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Cross-listed with MATH 236H

Description: Writing intensive version of MATH 236H
Offered: Spring
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MATH 236W-1 Intro to Algebra I Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
5
Co-Located: MATH 236-1 (P), MATH 236W-1
Instructors: Sergio Chaves
Description: Cross-listed with MATH 236

Description: Writing intensive version of MATH 236
Offered: Spring
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MATH 236W-2 Intro to Algebra I Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
5
Co-Located: MATH 236-2 (P), MATH 236W-2
Instructors: Arda Huseyin Demirhan
Description: Cross-listed with MATH 236

Description: Writing intensive version of MATH 236
Offered: Spring
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MATH 240-1 Intro to Topology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Hylan Building Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
29 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: MATH 240-1 (P), MATH 240W-1
Instructors: Bogdan Krstic
Description: Prerequisites: MATH 173 or (MATH 164 and MATH 235) or (MATH 164 and MATH 200).

Description: Review of set theory; metric spaces and topological spaces; functions and continuous functions; convergence, completeness, connectedness, and compactness; applications to surfaces.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 240H-1 Intro to topology (Honors) Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Gavett Hall Room 310 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
28 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: MATH 240H-1 (P), MATH 240HW-1
Instructors: Eric Hopper
Description: Prerequisites: MTH 173 or (MTH 164 and MTH 235) or (MTH 164 and MTH 200).

Description: Honors version of MTH 240.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 240HW-1 Intro to Topology (Honors) Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Gavett Hall Room 310 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
5
Co-Located: MATH 240H-1 (P), MATH 240HW-1
Instructors: Eric Hopper
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Cross-listed with MATH 240H

Description: Writing intensive version of MATH 240H
Offered: Spring
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MATH 240W-1 Intro to Topology Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Hylan Building Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
5
Co-Located: MATH 240-1 (P), MATH 240W-1
Instructors: Bogdan Krstic
Description: Cross-listed with MATH 240

Description: Writing intensive version of MATH 240
Offered: Spring
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MATH 248-1 Theory of Graphs Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Meliora Room 224 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Matthew Dannenberg
Description: Prerequisites: MTH 173 or MTH 235 or (MTH 200 and MTH 165).

Description: Paths, circuits, trees; bipartite graphs, matching problems; unicursal graphs, Hamiltonian circuits, factors; independent paths and sets; matrix representations; planar graphs; coloring problems.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 250-1 Intro to Geometry Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Harkness Room 115 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Mary Cook
Description: Prerequisites: Math 165 and Math 200, or Math 235, or Math 173

Foundations of geometry; isometry, similarity, inversions; introductions to affine, projective, and non-Euclidean geometries.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 263-1 Qualitative Theory of Odes Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Hylan Building Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Dan Geba
Description: Prerequisites: MTH 165 or 173.

Description: Theoretical approach to ordinary differential equations and the qualitative behavior of their solutions.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 282-1 Intro to Complex Var With App Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Gavett Hall Room 312 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
48
Instructors: Eyup Yalcinkaya
Description: Prerequisites: MTH 164 or MTH 174 (MTH 200 or MTH 235 recommended unless you have taken MTH 174).

Description: Complex differentiation and integration, analytic functions, singularities, residues, poles, power series, conformal mapping, with some applications. This course is independent of MTH 281.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 282-2 Intro to Complex Var With App Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Lechase Room 141 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
35
Instructors: Arda Huseyin Demirhan
Description: Prerequisites: MTH 164 or MTH 174 (MTH 200 or MTH 235 recommended unless you have taken MTH 174).

Description:Complex differentiation and integration, analytic functions, singularities, residues, poles, power series, conformal mapping, with some applications. This course is independent of MTH 281.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 285-1 Methods of Applied Math Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Hylan Building Room 306 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Carlos Chirre Chavez
Description: Prerequisites: MTH 164 and 165, or MTH 174.

Description: Topics emphasized can vary year-to-year. Typical topics covered are: Minimum principles; eigenvalues and dynamical systems; constraints and Lagrange multipliers; differential equations of equilibrium; calculus of variations; stability and chaos; nonlinear conservation laws.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 287-1 Math Methods in OPT & Physics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
49 		Capacity     
60
Co-Located: MATH 287-1, OPT 287-1 (P)
Instructors: William Renninger
Description: This course introduces techniques in mathematical study of optical phenomena. Emphasis is places on gaining insight and experience in the use of these powerful and elegant tools for describing, solving and resolving optical systems and schema.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 300W-1 History of Mathematics I Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 1106A 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Kalyani Madhu
Description: Prerequisites: Some mathematical sophistication required. MATH 161 or equivalent recommended.

The nature and style of mathematics in ancient Babylonia, Egypt, and Greece; medieval and Renaissance Europe; seventeenth-century Europe; and some aspects of the development of abstraction and rigor in analysis and set theory since 1700. This course has a limited number of seats. Students that need an upper-level writing course in mathematics can explore the alternatives of MATH 200W or MATH 391W. See the Math Department website for more information.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 403-1 Theory of Probability Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Hylan Building Room 1106A 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Arjun Krishnan
Description: Prerequisites: MTH 471

Description: Measure-theoretic foundations of probability. The Radon-Nikodym theorem and conditional expectation. Infinite products and Kolmogorov's extension theorem. Random variables, modes of convergence, independence, and the monotone class theorem. Laws of large numbers. Characteristic functions and the central limit theorem. Martingales, inequalities, the optional sampling theorem. Introduction to stochastic processes.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 437-1 Algebra II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Hylan Building Room 1101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Naomi Jochnowitz
Restrictions: Instructor permission required for Undergraduates - AS&E
Description: Prerequisites: MTH 436. Permission of instructor required for undergraduates.

Description:Multilinear algebra, quadratic forms, simple and semi-simple rings and modules.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 453-1 Differentiable Manifolds Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Hylan Building Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Stephen Kleene
Restrictions: Instructor permission required for Undergraduates - AS&E
Description: Prerequisites: MTH 265 or equivalent. Permission of instructor required for undergraduates.

Description: Differentiable manifolds, mappings and embeddings, exterior differential forms, affine connections, curvature and torsion. Riemannian geometry, introduction to Lie groups and Lie algebras.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 467-1 Analysis II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Meliora Room 218 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Sevak Mkrtchyan
Description: Prerequisites: Math 471.

Description: analytic functions as mappings, complex integration, series and product developments, conformal mapping and Dirichlet’s problem, Hilbert spaces, Fourier transform and Sobolev spaces.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 486-1 Guided Independent Study Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Allan Greenleaf
Description: The student will select 2 or more short independent study projects with different mathematics faculty in order to learn more about their research areas. This process will occur under the guidance of the professor of this guided independent study who will ultimately record the grade for this course. The student can select to earn independent credit through 491 courses for each independent study project from each different professor in addition to the 1 credit they earn from the overseeing professor of this course
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 506-1 Topic-Analysis & Func Analysis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Lechase Room 163 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Carl Mueller
Description: Topics are related to recent research in the field.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 535-1 Commutative Algebra Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1815 1930 Hylan Building Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Naomi Jochnowitz
Description: Field theory, valuations, local rings, affine schemes. Applications to number theory and geometry.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 538-1 Algebraic Geometry I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Hylan Building Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Saul Lubkin
Description: Spaces with structure sheaf, schemes, cohomology of schemes, applications to algebraic curves and algebraic groups.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MATH 589-1 Topics in Inverse Problems Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Goergen Hall Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Allan Greenleaf
Description:

Prerequisites

Math 471, Math 467, and Math 472 would be helpful.

An introduction to inverse problems and their applications to noninvasive imaging and nondestructive material parameter identification, with emphasis on the Mathematical foundations.

Imaging modalities considered will be X-ray (both standard X-rays and CT scans), acoustic imaging and electrical resistivity tomography.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Materials Science
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MSC 307-1 Sem Practicum Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1530 Goergen Hall Room 417 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: MSC 307-1, MSC 507-1, OPT 307-1 (P), OPT 407-1
Instructors: Nicholas Bigelow
Description: Overview of techniques for using the SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) and Scanning Probe (AFM, STM) and analyzing data. Students perform independent lab projects by semester's end.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MSC 416-3 X-Ray Crystallography Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Hylan Building Room 305 03/02/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: CHEM 416-2 (P), MSC 416-3
Instructors: William Brennessel
Description: 2 credit hour course- Students will learn the basic principles of X-ray diffraction, symmetry, and space groups. Students will also experience the single crystal diffraction experiment, which includes crystal mounting, data collection, structure solution and refinement, and the reporting of crystallographic data. Weekly assignments: problem sets, simple lab work, or computer work. (Spring, 2nd half of semester.)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MSC 418-1 Statistical Mechanics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Bausch & Lomb Room 269 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: MSC 418-1, PHYS 418-2 (P)
Instructors: Stephen Teitel
Description: Review of thermodynamics; general principles of statistical mechanics; micro-canonical, canonical, and grand canonical ensembles; ideal quantum gases; applications to magnetic phenomena, heat capacities, black-body radiation; introduction to phase transitions.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MSC 424-1 Robust Design/Quality Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
22 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ME 222-1 (P), ME 424-1, MSC 424-1, TME 424-1
Instructors: Paul Funkenbusch
Description: Definition and pursuit of 'quality' as a design criterion. The concept of robust design. Selection of the quality characteristic, incorporation of noise, and experimental design to improve robustness. Analysis and interpretation of results.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MSC 432-1 Opto-Mechanical Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Goergen Hall Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ME 232-1 (P), ME 432-1, MSC 432-1, OPT 232-1, OPT 432-1, TME 432-1
Instructors: Victor Genberg
Description: The mechanical design and analysis of optical components and systems will be studied. Topics will include kinematic mounting of optical elements, the analysis of adhesive bonds, and the influence of environmental effects such as gravity, temperature, and vibration on the performance of optical systems. Additional topics include analysis of adaptive optics, the design of lightweight mirrors, thermo-optic and stress-optic (stress birefringence) effects. Emphasis will be placed on integrated analysis which includes the data transfer between optical design codes and mechanical FEA codes. A term project is required for MSC 432.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MSC 437-1 Nanophoto/Nanomechanical Devices Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Gavett Hall Room 312 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
28
Co-Located: ECE 436-1 (P), MSC 437-1, OPT 464-1, TEE 436-1
Instructors: Qiang Lin
Description: Various types of typical nanophotonic structures and nanomechanical structures, fundamental optical and mechanical properties: micro/nano-resonators, photonic crystals, plasmonic structures, metamaterials, nano-optomechanical structures. Cavity nonlinearoptics, cavity quantum optics, and cavity optomechanics. Fundamental physics and applications, state-of-art devices and current research trends. This class is designed primarily for graduate students. It may be suitable for senior 

undergraduates if they have required basic knowledge. prerequisites:

This class is designed primarily for graduate students. It may be suitable for senior undergraduates if they have required basic knowledge. ECE 230 or 235,/435; OPT 262 or 462, or 468, or 223, or 412;  PHY 237, or 407
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MSC 456-1 Chm Bonds:From Molcls to Mat Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Hylan Building Room 105 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: CHEM 456-1 (P), MSC 456-1, OPT 429-1
Instructors: Todd Krauss
Description: An introduction to the electronic structure of extended materials systems from both a chemical bonding and a condensed matter physics perspective. The course will discuss materials of all length scales from individual molecules to macroscopic three-dimensional crystals, but will focus on zero, one, and two dimensional inorganic materials at the nanometer scale. Specific topics include semiconductor nanocrystals, quantum wires, carbon nanotubes, and conjugated polymers. Two weekly lectures of 75 minutes each.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MSC 461-1 Advanced Chemical Kinetics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: CHE 461-1 (P), MSC 461-1
Instructors: Marc Porosoff
Description: This course will acquaint the student with advanced topics in chemical kinetics and reactor design. The first half of the course will focus on kinetics from a molecular point of view, including kinetic theory of gases, collision theory and activated complex theory. The second half of the course will transition into reactor design, with topics including surface reactions and catalysis, effects of transport limitations on reaction rate and non-ideal flow in reactors. The course will conclude with emphasis on current literature in the field including applications of heterogeneous catalysis, electrocatalysis and photocatalysis.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MSC 462-1 Cell & Tissue Engineering Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Bausch & Lomb Room 269 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
34
Co-Located: BME 262-1 (P), BME 462-1, CHE 262-1, CHE 462-1, MSC 462-1
Instructors: Hani Awad
Description: This course teaches the principles of modern cell and tissue engineering with a focus on understanding and manipulating the interactions between cells and their environment. After a brief overview of Cell and Tissue Engineering, the course covers 5 areas of the field. These are: 1) Physiology for Tissue Engineering; 2) Bioreactors and Biomolecule Production; 3) Materials for Tissue Engineering; 4) Cell Cultures and Bioreactors and 5) Drug Delivery and Drug Discovery. Within each of these topics the emphasis is on analytical skills and instructors will assume knowledge of chemistry, mass transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and physiology consistent with the Cell and Tissue Engineering Track in BME. In a term project, students must present written and oral reports on a developing or existing application of Cell and Tissue Engineering. The reports must address the technology behind the application, the clinical need and any ethical implications. YOU MUST REGISTER FOR A RECITATION AND A LAB WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN COURSE. Prerequisites: BME 260, CHE225 (or ME123), CHE243 (or ME225), CHE244 and one of the following Cell Biology courses: BME211, BME411, BIO202 or BIO210; or permission of instructor.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MSC 465-1 Principles of Lasers Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
34 		Capacity     
34
Co-Located: ME 465-1, MSC 465-1, OPT 465-1 (P), PHYS 435-1, TEO 465-1
Instructors: Pablo Postigo Resa
Description: Topics include quantum mechanical treatments to two-level atomic systems, optical gain, homogeneous and inhomogeneous broadening, laser resonators, cavity design, pumping schemes, rate equations, Q-switching for various lasers.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MSC 470-1 Opt Properties of Materials Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: ECE 421-1, MSC 470-1, OPT 421-1 (P), TEO 421-1
Instructors: Gary Wicks
Description: Interaction of light with materials electrons, phonons, plasmons, and polaritons. Optical reflection, refraction, absorption, scattering, Raman scattering (spontaneous and stimulated), light emission (spontaneous and stimulated). Electrooptic effects and optical nonlinearities in solids. Plasmonics. Semiconductors and their nanostructures are emphasized; metals and insulators also discussed.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MSC 486-1 Visco in Bio Tissues Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Hylan Building Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: BME 212-1 (P), BME 412-1, ME 212-1, ME 412-1, MSC 486-1
Instructors: Mark Buckley
Description: Viscoelastic materials have the capacity to both store and dissipate energy. As a result, properly describing their mechanical behavior lies outside the scope of both solid mechanics and fluid mechanics. This course will develop constitutive relations and strategies for solving boundary value problems in linear viscoelastic materials. In addition, the closely-related biphasic theory for fluid-filled porous solids will be introduced. An emphasis will be placed on applications to cartilage, tendon, ligament, muscle, blood vessels, and other biological tissues. Advanced topics including non-linear viscoelasticity, composite viscoelasticity and physical mechanisms of viscoelasticity will be surveyed. Prerequisites: ME225 or CHE243; ME226 or BME201
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MSC 495-1 Master Research Spring 2023 12.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Danielle Benoit
Description: Master student research
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MSC 495-2 Master Research Spring 2023 10.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Anne Meyer
Description: Master student research
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MSC 495-3 Masters Research Spring 2023 10.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Lisa DeLouise
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MSC 495-4 Masters Research Spring 2023 10.0 Open
Schedule:
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Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Xin Li
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MSC 495-5 Masters Research Spring 2023 10.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Mark Buckley
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MSC 495-6 Masters Research Spring 2023 6.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Wyatt Tenhaeff
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MSC 495-7 Masters Research Spring 2023 10.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: John Lambropoulos
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MSC 495-8 Masters Research Spring 2023 10.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Alice Quillen
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MSC 496-1 MSC Graduate Seminar Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Bradley Nilsson
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MSC 507-1 Sem Practicum Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1530 Goergen Hall Room 417 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: MSC 307-1, MSC 507-1, OPT 307-1 (P), OPT 407-1
Instructors: Nicholas Bigelow
Description: Overview of techniques for using the SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) and Scanning Probe (AFM, STM) and analyzing data. Students perform independent lab projects by semester's end.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Mechanical Engineering
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ME 090-1 UR SAE Baja Team Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Christopher Muir
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: SAE BAJA Executive and Design Board members only. Instructor permission is required to register. Please contact Professor Christopher Muir for his signature on an Add/Drop form then submit to your Undergraduate Coordinator or adviser for approval.
Offered: Fall Spring
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ME 110-1 Intro to Cad and Drawing Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Gavett Hall Room 244 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
47 		Capacity     
48
Instructors: Craig Ronald
Description: This course covers engineering drawing, and modeling using the Computer Aided Design software Pro/ENGINEER. Topics include orthographic projections, solid modeling, assemblies, and dimensioning. Students will complete the course with a fundamental ability to create and understand solid modeling, and engineering drawings using state of the art PC CAD software. Lectures will make use of a computer projection screen as well as individual computers for each student.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 120-1 Engineering Mechanics I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Meliora Room 221 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
50 		Capacity     
80
Instructors: Laura Slane
Description: Basic concepts of mechanics; units; forces; moments; force systems; equilibrium; vector algebra. Plane trusses; method of joints; method of sections; space trusses; frames and machines. Centroids of lines, areas, and volumes; center of mass. Distributed loads on beams; internal forces in beams; distributed loads on cables. Basic concepts of dry friction; friction in machines. Virtual work and potential energy methods.

PREREQS: MTH 161
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 123-1 Thermodynamics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1025 1115 Hutchison Hall Room 140 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
92 		Capacity     
95
Instructors: A M S Anushika Athauda
Description: Course Content: thermodynamic systems, properties, equilibrium, and processes; energy and the first law; properties of simple compressible substances; control volume analysis; steady and transient states; entropy and the second law, general thermodynamic relations. PREREQS: MTH 162, PHY 121
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 205-1 Advanced Mechanical Design Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Lattimore Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
59 		Capacity     
85
Instructors: Christopher Muir
Description: This is an applied course that teaches the student how to use engineering principles in the design of mechanical components and mechanical systems. Topics include: load determination, static and fatigue failure theories, design and analysis of machine components (e.g. shafts, gears, bearings, fasteners, etc.), and the mechanical design process. The student learns the mechanical design process through team based design activities. In particular, project teams will design, analyze, build, and test a working machine in a semester long project. Formal design reviews and engineering reports will be used to document results.

PREREQS: ME 204
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 212-1 Visco in Bio Tissues Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Hylan Building Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: BME 212-1 (P), BME 412-1, ME 212-1, ME 412-1, MSC 486-1
Instructors: Mark Buckley
Description: Viscoelastic materials have the capacity to both store and dissipate energy. As a result, properly describing their mechanical behavior lies outside the scope of both solid mechanics and fluid mechanics. This course will develop constitutive relations and strategies for solving boundary value problems in linear viscoelastic materials. In addition, the closely-related biphasic theory for fluid-filled porous solids will be introduced. An emphasis will be placed on applications to cartilage, tendon, ligament, muscle, blood vessels, and other biological tissues. Advanced topics including non-linear viscoelasticity, composite viscoelasticity and physical mechanisms of viscoelasticity will be surveyed. Prerequisites: ME225 or CHE243; ME226 or BME201.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 222-1 Robust Design/Quality Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
22 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ME 222-1 (P), ME 424-1, MSC 424-1, TME 424-1
Instructors: Paul Funkenbusch
Description: Definition and pursuit of 'quality' as a design criterion. The concept of robust design. Selection of the quality characteristic, incorporation of noise, and experimental design to improve robustness. Analysis and interpretation of results.

PREREQS: Junior or higher status in an engineering or science major or minor, or permission of the instructor.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 223-1 Heat Transfer Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1150 1240 Computer Studies Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
39 		Capacity     
85
Instructors: Andrea Pickel
Description: Review of thermodynamic concepts; energy balances; heat transfer mechanisms. Steady-state heat conduction; concept of thermal resistance; conduction in walls, cylinders, and spheres; cooling fins. Transient heat conduction; lumped parameter systems; transient conduction in plane walls; transient conduction in semi-infinite solids. Numerical analysis of conduction; finite difference analysis; one-dimensional steady conduction; two-dimensional steady conduction; transient conduction. Fundamentals of convection; fluid flow and heat transfer; energy equation; convective heat transfer from flat plate; use of dimensional analysis. External forced convection; flow over flat plates; flow past cylinders and spheres; flow across tube banks. Internal forced convection; thermal analysis of flow in tubes; laminar flow in tubes; turbulent flow in tubes. Heat exchangers; overall heat transfer coefficient; log mean temperature analysis; effectiveness-NTU method.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 226-1 Intro to Solid Mechanics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Hutchison Hall Room 140 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
75 		Capacity     
100
Instructors: John Lambropoulos
Description: Description: Loads and displacements, stress and strain in solids. Laws of elasticity. Mechanical properties of materials. Thermal stresses. Axial loading. Pressure vessels. Plane stress and plane strain. Stress and strain tensor rotations; principal stresses, principal strains. Torsion and bending of beams. Energy methods. Buckling.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 232-1 Opto-Mechanical Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Goergen Hall Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ME 232-1 (P), ME 432-1, MSC 432-1, OPT 232-1, OPT 432-1, TME 432-1
Instructors: Victor Genberg
Description: The mechanical design and analysis of optical components and systems will be studied. Topics will include kinematic mounting of optical elements, the analysis of adhesive bonds, and the influence of environmental effects such as gravity, temperature, and vibration on the performance of optical systems. Additional topics include analysis of adaptive optics, the design of lightweight mirrors, thermo-optic and stress-optic (stress birefringence) effects. Emphasis will be placed on integrated analysis which includes the data transfer between optical design codes and mechanical FEA codes. A term project is required for ME 432.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 241-1 Mechanics Lab Lecture Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Hutchison Hall Room 140 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
37 		Capacity     
80
Instructors: Jessica Shang; A M S Anushika Athauda
Description: Introductory lecture on lab practice and data analysis. The lab itself consists of two parts: (1) simple experiments to familiarize students with computer data acquisitions and some basic instrumentation (2) a guided experimental project in which teams of students formulate a scientific question with the aid of technical literature, then design and execute an experiment to address the question. The course has significant writing content and makes formal use of the Writing Center. In addition to written and oral laboratory reports, each group is expected to make a final poster presentation of its work.
Offered: Fall Spring
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ME 251-1 Heat Power Application Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Bausch & Lomb Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
60 		Capacity     
76
Instructors: Riccardo Betti
Description: Review of thermodynamics, vapor power systems, gas power systems, refrigeration and heat pumps, internal combustion engines, nozzles and diffusers, compressors and turbines, aircraft propulsion, cost analysis of power production.

PREREQS: ME 123 and ME 225 (may be taken concurrently)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 260-1 Engineering Computation II Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 900 1015 Meliora Room 221 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
52 		Capacity     
86
Instructors: Laura Slane; A M S Anushika Athauda
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Advanced engineering computations using Matlab. This course will include the following programming topics: accelerated review of ME160, 3D plotting and animation, Debugging and Efficiency as well as some GUI programming. The rest of the course will be focused on numerical topics important for the mechanical engineering student including the following topics as time permits: numerical integration and differentiation, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, non-linear systems, solution of ODEs and PDEs.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 396-1 Mechanical Engineering Sophomore Seminar Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 900 1015 Hopeman Room 224 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Liyanagamage Dias
Description: If you're a sophomore Mechanical Engineering student who wants to be more involved in research or extracurriculars, then this is the course for you! This course will be conducted in a seminar style with new speakers each week. Guests include UR researchers like Dr. John Lambropoulos and advisors for engineering-related clubs. Evaluation will be done via quizzes, activities, or written reflections.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 404-1 Computational Methods Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Wegmans Room 1005 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: BME 404-1, ME 404-1 (P)
Instructors: Jong-Hoon Nam
Description: The course deals with computational methods to analytically intractable mathematical problems in biological research. For the first half of the course, general numerical analysis topics are reviewed such as linear algebra, ODE and PDE. Through homework assignments, students write their own computer code. Sufficient sample solutions are given to practice various numerical methods within limited time. The rest of the course is comprised of case studies and projects. Examples of computational analyses are drawn from life science problems such as biodynamics of human loco motion, ion channel kinetics, ionic diffusion, and finite element analysis of cells/tissues. For final project, students bring their own research problems, express them in mathematical equations, solve them using custom written computer programs and interpret the solutions.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 412-1 Visco in Bio Tissues Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Hylan Building Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: BME 212-1 (P), BME 412-1, ME 212-1, ME 412-1, MSC 486-1
Instructors: Mark Buckley
Description: Viscoelastic materials have the capacity to both store and dissipate energy. As a result, properly describing their mechanical behavior lies outside the scope of both solid mechanics and fluid mechanics. This course will develop constitutive relations and strategies for solving boundary value problems in linear viscoelastic materials. In addition, the closely-related biphasic theory for fluid-filled porous solids will be introduced, An emphasis will be placed on applications to cartilage, tendon, ligament, muscle, blood vessels, and other biological tissues. Advanced topics including non-linear viscoelasticity, composite viscoelasticity and physical mechanisms of viscoelasticity will be surveyed. Prerequisites: ME225 or CHE243; ME226 or BME201.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 424-1 Robust Design/Quality Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
22 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ME 222-1 (P), ME 424-1, MSC 424-1, TME 424-1
Instructors: Paul Funkenbusch
Description: Definition and pursuit of 'quality' as a design criterion. The concept of robust design. Selection of the quality characteristic, incorporation of noise, and experimental design to improve robustness. Analysis and interpretation of results.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 432-1 Opto-Mechanical Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Goergen Hall Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ME 232-1 (P), ME 432-1, MSC 432-1, OPT 232-1, OPT 432-1, TME 432-1
Instructors: Victor Genberg
Description: The mechanical design and analysis of optical components and systems will be studied. Topics will include kinematic mounting of optical elements, the analysis of adhesive bonds, and the influence of environmental effects such as gravity, temperature, and vibration on the performance of optical systems. Additional topics include analysis of adaptive optics, the design of lightweight mirrors, thermo-optic and stress-optic (stress birefringence) effects. Emphasis will be placed on integrated analysis which includes the data transfer between optical design codes and mechanical FEA codes. A term project is required for ME 432.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 435-1 Intro to Plasma Physics II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Hylan Building Room 306 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: ME 435-1 (P), PHYS 455-1, TME 435-1
Instructors: Chuang Ren
Description: Introduction to kinetic theory and the moment equations. Vlasov equation, Landau damping. Waves in unmagnetized and magnetized plasmas. Collisional processes, Fokker-Planck equation. Two-stream instability, micro-instabilities. Nonlinear effects, fluctuations. PHY 455 TME 435
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 436-1 Compressible Flow Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Gavett Hall Room 312 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ME 436-1 (P), TME 436-1
Instructors: Valeri Goncharov
Description: Kinematics, equations of motion; thermodynamicsof gases; linear acoustics; Bernoulli equation; potential flow; steady one-dimensional flow; shock waves, normal and oblique shocks; unsteadyone-dimensional flow, characteristics. Applications in engineering andastrophysics.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 438-3 Introduction to Quality Engineering Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Dewey Room 2110E 01/11/2023 03/15/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: BME 438-3 (P), ME 438-3
Instructors: Amy Lerner
Description: Concepts, tools and techniques for quality engineering in product design and statistical process control, including design of experiments, RCA, FMEA and measurement systems. Class meets January 11 - March 15, 2023. Prerequisite: Basic understanding of statistical methods.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 444-1 Continuum Mechanics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Meliora Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: ME 444-1 (P), TME 444-1
Instructors: Douglas Kelley
Description: Continuum mechanics may be the topic that best defines and unifies mechanical engineering. The topic considers motion, deformation, flow, stresses, forces, and heat transfer as determined by the laws of mechanics. Those phenomena may occur in any materials — solids, fluids, or things in-between — that can be well-modeled as continuous, not discrete (meaning quantization effects are negligible). To handle this wide variety of phenomena and materials, we use the language of tensor mathematics, which we will build up at the beginning of the course. Applications to ongoing research of the instructor and students will be incorporated wherever possible. The course will include indicial notation and tensor analysis, concepts of stress, both Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions of deformation and strain, conservation of mass, momentum, energy, angular momentum, and constitutive equations to describe material response.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 450-1 Introduction to Quantum Theory of Materials Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Lechase Room 141 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Sobhit Kumar Singh
Description: An introduction to the fascinating world of quantum materials in bulk and 2D. This course aims to unveil the quantum origin of materials-specific properties from the atomic level. Topics covered include: crystal structure and symmetries, fundamentals of electronic structure, phonons and vibrational spectroscopies, optical properties of materials, electronic and thermal transport elastic and mechanical properties of solids, superconductivity, magnetism and a brief discussion of ab-initio prediction of materials properties and molecular dynamics.
Offered: Spring
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ME 451-1 Characterization Methods in Materials Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Hylan Building Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Danae Polsin
Description: Crystallography, symmetry elements, space groups, x-ray diffraction from single crystals and powder patterns. Fourier transforms, grain size effects, residual stresses and textures, diffuse and small angle scattering, Bragg and Laue x-ray diffraction topography, thin films and epitaxial layers. Modern x-ray software for diffraction analysis including textures, residual stresses, pattern identification and Rietveld applications.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 465-1 Principles of Lasers Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
34 		Capacity     
34
Co-Located: ME 465-1, MSC 465-1, OPT 465-1 (P), PHYS 435-1, TEO 465-1
Instructors: Pablo Postigo Resa
Description: This course provides an up-to-date knowledge of modern laser systems. Topics covered include quantum mechanical treatments to two-level atomic systems, optical gain, homogenous and inhomogenous broadening, laser resonators and their modes, Gaussian beams, cavity design, pumping schemes, rate equations, Q switching, mode-locking, various gas, liquid, and solid-state lasers.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 488-1 Computational Methods for High-Energy-Density Physics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Frederick Douglass Room 404 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Suxing Hu
Description: Covers first-principles methods for understanding HED physics through theoretical and computational studies. Student will learn state-of-the-art computational methods for investigating the physics of HED matter using the quantum many-body physics approach. Previous experience or coursework in Quantum Mechanics experience in some form is a prerequisite. Only open to undergraduate seniors and graduate students. Not elligible for audit or S/F.
Offered: Spring
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ME 497-1 Research Seminar in ME Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: John Lambropoulos
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 532-1 Magnetohydrodynamics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Bausch & Lomb Room 269 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ME 532-1 (P), PHYS 552-1
Instructors: Fernando Garcia Rubio
Description: In this course, the student will be taught a general introduction to magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), with applications in engineering and high-energy density physics. Syllabus: Governing Equations. Electromagnetic induction; the magnetic Reynolds number; frozen-in magnetic fields and magnetic flux tubes. Hydromagnetic equilibria; force-free fields. Alfvén waves, magneto-acoustic waves. Discontinuities, magnetosonic shock waves. Viscous flows: Hartmann boundary layers. Stability of MHD flows: kink and sausage instabilities, magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Numerical MHD; Introduction to FLASH. Introduction to magnetized HEDP experiments. MHD in plasma physics, Extended MHD. 

Prerequirements: Fluid Mechanics, Electromagnetism. 
Offered: Fall
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ME 535-1 Laser Plasma Interactions Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Hylan Building Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ME 535-1 (P), PHYS 553-1
Instructors: Andrei Maximov
Description: Breakeven conditions for inertial confinement fusion. The coronal plasma. Inverse bremsstrahlung absorption. Resonance absorption. Parametric instabilities. Nonlinear plasma waves. Zakharov equations and collapse.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 899-01 Master's Dissertation Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Hesam Askari
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 899-02 Master's Dissertation Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
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Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Christopher Muir
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 899-20 Master's Dissertation Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
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Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Niaz Abdolrahim
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 899-21 Master's Dissertation Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
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Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Jessica Shang
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 899-23 Master's Dissertation Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
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Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Paul Funkenbusch
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 899-26 Master's Dissertation Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Jong-Hoon Nam
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 899-3 Master's Dissertation Spring 2023 12.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: John Lambropoulos
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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ME 899A-3 Mstrs Disertatn in Absentia Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
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Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Jong-Hoon Nam
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Music
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MUSC 101-1 Elements of Music Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Strong Auditorium Room 011 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
91 		Capacity     
400
Instructors: Naomi Gregory
Description: A course for the student with no previous musical experience. Topics covered include notation, intervals, chords, and other basic concepts of tonal harmony, with application to the study of a wide range of styles including popular idioms. Students should not be able to read music. Students who complete MUSC 110 may NOT enroll in MUSC 101, credit will NOT be given for both.
Offered: Fall Spring
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MUSC 104-1 Carillon Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
13
Instructors: Doris Aman
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Private carillon instruction, weekly 30-minute lessons or the equivalent.

By audition only. Permission of instructor required.
Offered: Fall
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MUSC 109-1 Musicianship I:Literacy Skills Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1450 Dewey Room B320 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Naomi Gregory
Description: Introduces students to basic musicianship skills. Begins with exercises in pitch matching and basic interval recognition and progresses toward other skills, such as singing simple melodies at sight, sight-reading various rhythmic patterns, and dictating simple melodies and chord progressions. Prospective music majors, especially those with prior singing experience, typically skip this course and begin with MUR 113.
Offered: Fall Spring
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MUSC 109-2 Musicianship I:Literacy Skills Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1615 Dewey Room B315 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Naomi Gregory
Description: Introduces students to basic musicianship skills. Begins with exercises in pitch matching and basic interval recognition and progresses toward other skills, such as singing simple melodies at sight, sight-reading various rhythmic patterns, and dictating simple melodies and chord progressions. Prospective music majors, especially those with prior singing experience, typically skip this course and begin with MUR 113.
Offered: Fall Spring
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MUSC 110-1 Intro to Music Theory Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Strong Auditorium Room 011 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
51 		Capacity     
85
Instructors: Jason Titus
Description: Basic concepts of music theory, addressing students with some musical experience in an instrument or voice, but little or no music theory. Scales, keys, intervals, chords, basic part-writing, and other fundamental aspects of musical structure. Some ear training and aural skills. Prerequisite: The ability to read music, preferably in both treble and bass clefs. Students who have completed MUR 101 may NOT register for MUR 110, credit will NOT be given for both.
Offered: Fall Spring
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MUSC 112-1 Theory II Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Dewey Room 1305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
26 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Matthew BaileyShea
Description: This course focuses on the same broad topics as MUSC 111, and draws from a similarly varied repertoire, but introduces more complex concepts, including chromatic harmony and scales, advanced formal analysis, key changes, elaborate rhythmic and metric patterns, and intricate textural layering. Prerequisite: MUSC 111. (Spring only) 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 112-2 Theory II Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Wegmans Room 1400 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Jason Titus
Description: This course focuses on the same broad topics as MUSC 111, and draws from a similarly varied repertoire, but introduces more complex concepts, including chromatic harmony and scales, advanced formal analysis, key changes, elaborate rhythmic and metric patterns, and intricate textural layering. Prerequisite: MUSC 111. (Spring only) 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 112-3 Theory II Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Wegmans Room 1400 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Jason Titus
Description: This course focuses on the same broad topics as MUSC 111, and draws from a similarly varied repertoire, but introduces more complex concepts, including chromatic harmony and scales, advanced formal analysis, key changes, elaborate rhythmic and metric patterns, and intricate textural layering. Prerequisite: MUSC 111. (Spring only) 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 112-4 Theory II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Dewey Room 1305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Jacquelyn Sholes
Description: This course focuses on the same broad topics as MUSC 111, and draws from a similarly varied repertoire, but introduces more complex concepts, including chromatic harmony and scales, advanced formal analysis, key changes, elaborate rhythmic and metric patterns, and intricate textural layering. Prerequisite: MUSC 111. (Spring only) 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 112-6 Theory II Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Strong Auditorium Room 011 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Bruce Frank
Description: This course focuses on the same broad topics as MUR 111, and draws from a similarly varied repertoire, but introduces more complex concepts, including chromatic harmony and scales, advanced formal analysis, key changes, elaborate rhythmic and metric patterns, and intricate textural layering. Prerequisite: MUR 111. (Spring only) This course focuses on the same broad topics as MUR 111, and draws from a similarly varied repertoire, but introduces more complex concepts, including chromatic harmony and scales, advanced formal analysis, key changes, elaborate rhythmic and metric patterns, and intricate textural layering. Prerequisite: MUR 111. (Spring only)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 113-1 Musicianship II Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 950 Dewey Room B320 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Christopher Meeker
Description: This course develops basic musicianship skills with an emphasis of diatonic sight-singing, rhythmic sight-reading, and dictation of diatonic melodies and chord progressions. The exercises and in-class activities are similar to MUSC 109 but at a more advanced level. (1 credit)
Offered: Fall Spring
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MUSC 113-2 Musicianship II Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1000 1050 Dewey Room B320 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Christopher Meeker
Description: This course develops basic musicianship skills with an emphasis of diatonic sight-singing, rhythmic sight-reading, and dictation of diatonic melodies and chord progressions. The exercises and in-class activities are similar to MUSC 109 but at a more advanced level. (1 credit)
Offered: Fall Spring
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MUSC 114-1 Musicianship III Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1000 1050 Dewey Room B320 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Christopher Meeker
Description: Continuation of MUSC 113 with an increased emphasis on chrom- aticism, especially simple modulation and mode mixture. The course puts emphasis on ensemble singing and aural analysis. Prerequisites: MUSC 113 or permission of theory coordinator. (1 credit)
Offered: Fall Spring
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MUSC 114-2 Musicianship III Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1100 1150 Dewey Room B320 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Christopher Meeker
Description: Continuation of MUSC 113 with an increased emphasis on chrom-aticism, especially simple modulation and mode mixture. The course puts emphasis on ensemble singing and aural analysis. Prerequisites: MUSC 113 or permission of theory coordinator. (1 credit)
Offered: Fall Spring
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MUSC 115-1 Musicianship IV Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1100 1150 Dewey Room B320 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Christopher Meeker
Description: Continuation of MUSC 114 with greater emphasis on chromaticism and aural analysis. (1 credit) Prerequisite: MUSC 114.
Offered: Fall Spring
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MUSC 116-1 Keyboard Skills I Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 950 Dewey Room 1305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Bruce Frank
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Introduces students to the keyboard as a vehicle for broader musical development. Covers basic piano technique, sight-reading of simple chord progressions, realization of figured bass, and basic improvisation. No prior keyboard training required. Permission of instructor required. (2 credits)
Offered: Fall Spring
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MUSC 117-1 Keyboard Skills II Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1240 Dewey Room B349 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Bruce Frank
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Continuation of MUSC 116. Students completing this course fulfill the piano proficiency for the music major.

Prerequisite: MUSC 116 or permission of instructor. (2 credits)

Offered: Fall Spring
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MUSC 119-1 Beg Piano Class Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1835 1925 Messinger Hall Room 410 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
6
Instructors: Alex Lo
Description: MUSC 119 is a continuation of MUSC 118 (taken in the Fall term).  MUSC 118 is the pre-requisite for MUSC 119.  MUSC 119 is not a course for beginners, nor is it at a beginning level.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 119-2 Beg Piano Class Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1835 1925 Eastman School Of Music Room 443 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
11
Instructors: Xu Guo
Description: MUSC 119 is a continuation of MUSC 118 (taken in the Fall term).  MUSC 118 is the pre-requisite for MUSC 119.  MUSC 119 is not a course for beginners, nor is it at a beginning level.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 119-4 Beg Piano Class Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1835 1925 Eastman School Of Music Room 443 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
11
Instructors: Alex Lo
Description: MUSC 119 is a continuation of MUSC 118 (taken in the Fall term).  MUSC 118 is the pre-requisite for MUSC 119.  MUSC 119 is not a course for beginners, nor is it at a beginning level.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 119-5 Beg Piano Class Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1735 1825 Messinger Hall Room 410 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
6
Instructors: ; Alex Lo
Description: MUSC 119 is a continuation of MUSC 118 (taken in the Fall term).  MUSC 118 is the pre-requisite for MUSC 119.  MUSC 119 is not a course for beginners, nor is it at a beginning level.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 122-1 Voice Class Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: MUSC 122-1 (P)
Instructors: Sofia Scattarreggia
Description: Voice class for River Campus students instructed by an Eastman faculty member.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 127A-1 American Protest Music Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: AAAS 124-1, MUSC 127A-1 (P)
Instructors: Cory Hunter
Description: This course focuses on protest music in America during the 20th and 21st centuries. We will examine how music has been used throughout American history to articulate the social and political concerns of Americans. As we examine genres such as folk music, the blues, punk, rock ’n roll, hip hop, and funk, we will focus on how artists within each genre musically and verbally expressed the existential realities facing American culture. We will also look closely at specific social movements and political events - such as the labor movement, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam war, women's liberation, LGBTQ activism, and the Black Lives Matter Movement, among others - to understand how the music in each era impacted, and was impacted by, the American sociocultural milieu. 
Offered: Fall Spring
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MUSC 128-1 Film Music Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Dewey Room 1305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
22 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: FMST 261-1, MUSC 128-1 (P)
Instructors: Jacquelyn Sholes
Description: This course will trace the history of music in film from the inception of silent motion pictures in the late 19th century to present-day productions. Will consider how the aural and visual aspects of the medium interact dramatically and how the music can enhance or otherwise influence interpretation of what is happening on the screen.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 129-1 Music of the Rolling Stones Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Lattimore Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
33 		Capacity     
60
Instructors: John Covach
Description: The music of the Rolling Stones is examined, starting with the earliest music from 1962 and extending to the early 1970s. Emphasis will be on the band's stylistic development, as well as on the British blues movement of the early to mid 1960s. The music of other blues-based British groups, including Blues Incorporated, the Yardbirds, the Animals, the Bluesbreakers, Cream, and Led Zeppelin, will also be considered. No previous training or ability to read music is required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 132-1 Starmakers: Inside Pub Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1700 1900 Dewey Room B315 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Bruce Pilato
Description: Will include a historical overview of music stars and the publicity campaigns used to promote their careers. From Frank Sinatra-1940s; through Elvis Presley;-1950s; through The Beatles & The Rolling Stones in the 1960s, up through self-indulgent 70s with acts like Elton John, Kiss, and Prince, up to today's high profile campaigns for Justin Bieber, Rhianna and Lady Gaga. Students will be versed in the art of writing an artist bio, press releases, and in the various types of PR events staged to gain publicity, Starmakers will also look at the various types of publicity such as career launching; crisis management(scandals; sudden death of celebrity)and tour press. We will also look at how social media has become a game changer for music publicity.

** NOTE: This is a 6 week course**

Spring 2023 course dates will be posted by the instructor.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 134-1 Musical Style & Genre Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Dewey Room B315 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Naomi Gregory
Description: An introduction to the history of Western classical music from the Middle Ages to the present, with emphasis on recognition of the chief stylistic characteristics and understanding of major genres of each period.

Prerequisite: MUR 112 or permission of instructor.
Offered: Fall Spring
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MUSC 136-1 Exploring Classical Music Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Dewey Room 1305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Honey Meconi
Description: This class explores the many genres of Western classical music, with examples drawn from the symphonic repertoire, chamber music, solo keyboard works, opera, choral music, and art song.  Music from the Baroque to the present will be included.  The emphasis will be on music being performed in Rochester during the semester.  No prerequisites. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 139-1 Religion and Black Pop Music Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Lattimore Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: AAAS 140-1, MUSC 139-1 (P), RELC 168-1
Instructors: Cory Hunter
Description: This course will examine the relationship between the religious and theological beliefs of African American musicians and their musical artistry. We will journey through various African American music genres of the 20th centuryblues, jazz, gospel, soul, funk, hip hop, etcand will study how religion has influenced performance style, lyrical content, vocality, melodic and harmonic contour, among a host of other factors.
Offered: Fall Spring
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MUSC 143-1 Story & Narrative in Symphonic Music Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Dewey Room B315 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Rachel Waddell
Description: This course explores the evolving role of orchestral literature in western music from the Classical period through film music today. Over the semester we examine several large-scale works in depth to better understand their context, structure, and significance. This course includes discussions on interpretation, as well as performance and conducting challenges. While the ability to read music is not required, students should be passionate about classical orchestral repertoire and its changing role over time.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 150-1 Treble Chorus Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1845 2045 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
50
Instructors: Philip Silvey
Description: Participants in the Treble Chorus form a vocal ensemble of high-voiced singers from across the university community. They explore history and cultures by studying diverse repertoire, sharing their understandings in concert performances scheduled throughout the semester.  They also have the opportunity to cultivate healthy vocal production and musicianship skills. To join, simply register for the class. The instructor will arrange voice part hearings during the first week of classes.  Spring 2022 location will be the Ray Wright Room on the ESM campus.
Offered: Fall
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MUSC 152-1 University Chamber Singers Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Hutchison Hall Room 140 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Julie Covach
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: A small mixed ensemble of 16 to 20 voices that performs a wide variety of choral repertoire from the Renaissance to the present.

By audition only. Auditions are held each semester.
Offered: Fall
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MUSC 153-1 Symphony Orchestra Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1930 2200 Strong Auditorium Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
300
Instructors: Rachel Waddell
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: URSO (Symphony Orchestra) is a university-civic orchestra whose members are selected from both UR student body and greater Rochester community. Membership through auditions, occurs prior to the first rehearsal of each season. Other auditions may be held as needed throughout the season.
Offered: Fall
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MUSC 154-1 Chamber Orchestra Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1650 1930 Strong Auditorium Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
300
Instructors: Rachel Waddell
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: URCO (Chamber Orchestra) Membership is limited and is granted by the music director through competitive auditions, which occur prior to the first scheduled rehearsal of each season. Auditions may be held as needed during the academic year.
Offered: Fall
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MUSC 155-1 Chamber Ensembles Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
50
Instructors: Jennifer Carpenter
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The chamber music program facilitates formation and coaching of serious advanced chamber ensembles. One academic credit may be earned by registering and successfully completing all requirements listed under course work. Admission by permission of the coordinator. Participation will not count toward fulfillment of the ensemble requirement.
Offered: Fall
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MUSC 156-1 Wind Symphony Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1930 2200 Strong Auditorium Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
38 		Capacity     
300
Instructors: Bill Tiberio
Description: Wind Symphony draws its membership primarily from the student body on River Campus and performs music of various styles, genres, and eras. Membership by audition. Coursework: One rehearsal per week; individual practice. At least four concerts per academic year. Attendance required at all rehearsals, dress rehearsals, and concerts, unless excused in advance by conductor.
Offered: Fall
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MUSC 157-1 Jazz Ensemble Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 O'Brien Residence Hall Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
40
Instructors: Bill Tiberio
Description: The Jazz Ensemble is open by audition to all U of R community, and performing a wide variety of music. Occasional guests artists and clinicians. (Fall and Spring) (1 credit)
Offered: Fall
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MUSC 157A-1 Jazz Combo Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
U 1530 1930 O'brien Hall Room 105 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Bill Tiberio
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Small group playing of selections from the jazz repertoire, with an emphasis on improvisation. Admission is by permission of instructor only. (1 credit)
Offered: Fall
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MUSC 158-1 Gospel Choir Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1900 2015 Hutchison Hall Room 140 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
70
Instructors: Julius Dicks
Description: One rehearsal per week. Two concerts per semester. In addition, there may be off-campus performances in local colleges, churches, and other venues in the greater-Rochester community. The Gospel Choir performs a varied repertoire of sacred music -- spirituals, hymns, traditional and contemporary Gospel, music of the praise-and-worship genre. (Fall and Spring) (1 credit)
Offered: Fall
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MUSC 160-1 Concert Choir Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1650 1840 Lattimore Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
22 		Capacity     
350
Instructors: Julie Covach
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: A mixed ensemble of voices that performs a wide variety of choral repertoire for large chorus, including regular performances with orchestra. An informal-voicing is required for all potential members; students must demonstrate the ability to sing in tune and read music.

Prerequisite: Auditions are held each semester.
Offered: Fall
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MUSC 162-1 Music & the Mind Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Morey Room 321 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
65 		Capacity     
70
Co-Located: BCSC 260-1 (P), MUSC 162-1, TH 260-1, TH 460-1
Instructors: Elise Piazza
Description: Introduction to the discipline of music cognition. Topics include empirical methods, psycho-acoustic principles, influence of Gestalt psychology, music and language, metric and tonal hierarchies, music and the brain, aspects of musical development, and research on musical memory, expectation, and emotion.

Prerequisite: One semester of collegiate music theory (MUR 101, MUR 110, MUR 111 or TH 101), AP exam score of 4 or 5, or permission of instructor.
Offered: Spring
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MUSC 163-1 Musical Theater Skills Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Strong Auditorium Room 011 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Zachary Peterson
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Musical Theatre Skills is a course designed to provide intensive practical experience with both scene-and-song work in the American Musical Theatre repertoire.  Students will receive weekly coaching and rehearsal, with emphasis on characterization, acting and singing skills, and idiomatic performance practice.  While this course has a few readings and writing assignments, emphasis is on performance preparation.  This course may culminate in a public showing of work studied over the course of the semester.  Permission of instructor (by audition).  Previous musical theatre experience is preferred, but not required.
Offered: Fall Spring
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MUSC 164-1 Jazz Performance Workshop Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1535 1725 Eastman Annex 1 Room 624 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: JCM 152-1 (P), MUSC 164-1
Instructors: John Hasselback
Description: Jazz Performance Workshop for Non-Majors: Combines the study of improvisation, theory, aural training and small group performance. Offered for non-majors from both Eastman and River Campus. This course may count as a chamber music credit, or for the WBP practical creative elective, only with permission of the students' department chair.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 168A-1 West African Drumming Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1815 1930 Strong Auditorium Room 011 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AAAS 168-2, ENS 215-2, MUSC 168A-1 (P), MUSC 468-1
Instructors: Kerfala Bangoura
Description: Led by Master Drummer Fana Bangoura, the West African Drumming Ensemble is dedicated to the dynamic percussive traditions of Guinea. The ensemble combines the iconic djembe hand drum with a trio of drums played with sticks, known as dunun, sangban, and kenkeni. The powerful, multi-part relationships established by this trio of dru 215-2ms provide a rhythmic foundation for the ensemble, enabling djembe players to develop technique in executing both accompaniment and solo parts. Drawing upon his experience as a soloist with the internationally acclaimed groups Les Percussions de Guine and Les Ballets Africains, Fana engages ensemble players with a wide repertory of music from various regions of Guinea, including the rhythms of the Susu, Malinke, and Baga language groups.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 170-1 Brass Choir Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1815 1915 O'Brien Residence Hall Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Bill Tiberio
Description: Brass Choir is a 15-20 member ensemble dedicated to performing quality brass music at a high level while fostering a spirit of community among brass players on the RC. Open to experienced trumpet, horn, trombone, euphonium, and tuba players.
Offered: Fall
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MUSC 171-1 Arranging Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Dewey Room B315 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Andrew Cashner
Description: Arranging is a key skill in any practicing musician's toolbox. Whether you are

reworking an existing song for an a capella or theater group, producing a

recording of an original song, or adapting music to fit the practical needs of

an amateur ensemble, this class can help you craft effective and

appealing arrangements. Students will develop and workshop their own projects with

the class while we learn from examples by today's pop and Broadway arrangers,

as well as past masters of arrangement including Bach, Mozart, and

Liszt. With an emphasis on simple solutions that work for performers of

varying skill levels, the course will show you how to bring out the best in

the source music while presenting the performing ensemble in its best light.  

Prequisite: Basic ability to read music and to sing or play an instrument.
Offered: Fall Spring
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MUSC 180-1 Rock Repertory Ensemble Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1600 1900 Strong Auditorium Room 011 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: John Covach
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The Rock Repertory Ensemble is devoted to performing accurate versions of songs from the rock music repertory, with selections ranging from the early 1950's to the present day. Open to guitarists, bassists, drummers, keyboard players, and singers, with consideration given to winds players depending on repertory for a given semester.

Audition required.
Offered: Fall
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MUSC 181-1 Gtr Class: Beyond the Basics Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1830 1930 Dewey Room B320 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Roberto Sanchez Rocha
Description: This is an introductory guitar class that will teach guitar fundamentals and get students playing popular, rock, blues, classical, and simple jazz tunes by the end of the semester. This course is open to all guitar enthusiasts as well as music majors/minors seeking a 'methods class' approach to learning the instrument. Electric and acoustic guitars welcome. **GUITARS ARE NOT SUPPLIED**

TA led organized practice sessions TBA
Offered: Fall
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MUSC 184-1 Sansifanyi W African Dan-Drum Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1900 2015 Spurrier Gymnasium Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Kerfala Bangoura
Description: Sansifanyi is an ensemble that provides various performance opportunities both on and off-campus for intermediate and advanced students of African dance & drumming. Instructor Kerfala Bangoura trains ensemble members in a performance style that integrates dance, drumming, vocal song, and narrative elements. Dancers who enroll in Sansifanyi will learn choreographic techniques for West African dance and gain experience dancing as soloists. Dancers will also learn focus on rhythmic timing and on drumming while dancing. Drummers enrolled in Sansifanyi will learn extended percussion arrangements and techniques for accompanying choreography. They will also learn how to play the breaks required of lead drummers. Prerequisites: One of the following: DANC181 & 182, DANC 283, DANC 253, DANC 285. For Drummers one of the following: MUSC 168A, MUSC 168B, MUSC 146 OR to audition, email kerfala.bangoura@gmail.com. 
Offered: Fall
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MUSC 191-1 Art and Tech of Recording Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Gavett Hall Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: AME 191-1 (P), DMST 121-1, MUSC 191-1
Instructors: Stephen Roessner
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course covers the fundamentals in becoming an audio engineer. Topics covered include: Acoustics, Psychoacoustics, Microphones, Signal Processing, Tape Recording, Digital Audio Theory, Signal Flow, Studio Etiquette, Digital Audio Workstations, Music Business, Recording Audio, and Mixing Audio. You do not need any previous experience in recording, however some familiarity with music and how it is created is needed.

There are four group recording projects that make up the bulk of the course, each with their own guidelines and challenges. This course requires considerable time to be spent on projects outside of the lecture and lab times. The labs are required to take this course.

First-year non-AME Major students are ineligible to take this course.

Prerequisites: None

INSTRUCTOR PERMISSION ONLY.
Offered: Fall
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MUSC 192-1 Listening and Audio Prod Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Gavett Hall Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: AME 192-1 (P), DMST 122-1, MUSC 192-1
Instructors: Stephen Roessner
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course builds on knowledge gained in AME191. Fundamental topics covered include Advanced Mixing and Mastering Techniques, Drum Replacement, Impulse Responses and Reverb, Advanced Concepts of Signal Processing, Analog Tape Recording, Music Business Ethics and Taxes, and Hybrid Analog/Digital Mixing Techniques.

Emphasis is on the development of critical listening skills through ear training exercises and active listening assignments. These drills will develop your ability to hear width and depth in audio, mixing techniques in various musical genres, specific instruments used in a recording, and recognition of various effects including reverb, delay, compression, phasing and distortion.

There are four group recording projects that make up the bulk of the course, each with their own guidelines and challenges. This course requires considerable time to be spent on projects outside of the lecture and lab times. The labs are required to take this course.

Prerequisites: AME 191

INSTRUCTOR PERMISSION ONLY.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 193-1 Sound Design Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Computer Studies Room 616 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
40
Instructors: Robert LaVaque
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The course is intended to provide students a basic understanding of SOUND DESIGN and working with sound for picture. The emphasis is on demonstrations and hands-on experience to enable students to gain a practical knowledge of sound and music production using computers.

Topics include synthesizers & samplers; recording and editing with Pro Tools and Logic Pro; sound effect creation; foley & automatic dialog replacement; basic soundtrack composition; and working to picture. Many techniques are explored, employing software and hardware-based sound creation tools throughout the course. Students will complete a major sound design project at the conclusion of the course.

Instructor’s permission required: Please provide your class year and major/minor.
Offered: Fall
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MUSC 194-1 Audio for Visual Media Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1815 1930 Computer Studies Room 616 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: AME 194-1 (P), AME 461-1, MUSC 194-1
Instructors: Robert LaVaque
Description: This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of the process and the skills for creating MUSIC for picture. The course emphasizes hands-on experience where students gain practical knowledge in scoring to picture using provided DAWs and Virtual Instruments. It features guest lectures by professional composers in the fields of TV, Film, Advertising, Gaming, and Animation, providing real world style assignments along with individual feedback for each student.

Topics also include MIDI, creating drumbeats, music analysis and emulation, soft synthesizers, samplers, virtual instruments, recording and editing with Logic Pro, and working to picture. Students will complete numerous projects throughout the course.

Prerequisites: AME 193, or a solid working knowledge of either Pro Tools or Logic Pro. Strong musical ability, basic keyboard proficiency.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 202-1 Jazz Theory & Improv II Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1815 1930 Dewey Room 1305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Andrew Watkins-Alcocer
Description: Continuation of MUSC 201.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 204-1 Carillon Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
3
Instructors: Doris Aman
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Private carillon instruction, weekly 60-minute lessons.

By audition only. Permission of instructor required.
Offered: Fall
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MUSC 207-1 Hildegard of Bingen and Her World Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Dewey Room 1305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: GRMN 217-1, MUSC 207-1 (P), RELC 287-1
Instructors: Honey Meconi
Description: This course explores the life and times of Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179), who was a noted theologian, a major composer and poet, a leader in early scientific and medical writing, the creator of an imaginary language and a new alphabet, a figure in the political life of the twelfth century and the rise of German nationalism in the nineteenth, a possible artist of astonishing iconography, and the only musician to be recognized as both a saint and a Doctor of the Church by the Catholic Church.  The class will examine her many remarkable creations in multiple areas in the context of twelfth-century German history and culture, her reception throughout the more than 800 years since her death, and her role today in popular culture.   No prerequisites.  4 credits. 
Offered: Fall Spring
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MUSC 212C-1 Analysis of 20th & 21st Century Music Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Dewey Room B315 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Bruce Frank
Description: Explores the theoretical and aesthetic principles of twentieth-century music, especially in relation to earlier compositional procedures. Introduces basic post-tonal theory, including set-class analysis, transformational theory, and serial techniques.
Offered: Spring
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MUSC 222-1 History of Western Music 1600-1800 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Dewey Room B315 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Andrew Cashner
Description: Survey of Western classical music from ca. 1600 to b1800, with emphasis on the stylistic, generic, and performance innovations of the period; opera receives special attention. Workshops investigate specific problems posed by notation, performance, ethics, and so on.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 236-1 Music, Ethnography & HIV/AIDS Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 540 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: AAAS 222-1, ANTH 240-1, GSWS 241-1, MUSC 236-1 (P), MUSC 436-1, PHLT 227-1
Instructors: Jennifer Kyker
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Addressing the devastating effects of HIV/AIDS in the United States, United Kingdom, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Haiti, and elsewhere, this uniquely interdisciplinary course will incorporate insights from the fields of public health, medical anthropology, and ethnomusicology. Studying the HIV/AIDS epidemic through the lens of musical expression, we will ask how individuals and communities affected by HIV/AIDS have mobilized musical sound in response to the disease. Topics addressed within the class will include musical representations of HIV/AIDS within queer communities; the use of music in public health campaigns to raise awareness about the disease; and the mobilization of musical performance within grassroots support groups for individuals affected by HIV/AIDS.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 395-1 Independent Research Spring 2023 Lecture Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 436-1 Music, Ethnography & HIV/AIDS Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 540 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: AAAS 222-1, ANTH 240-1, GSWS 241-1, MUSC 236-1 (P), MUSC 436-1, PHLT 227-1
Instructors: Jennifer Kyker
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Addressing the devastating effects of HIV/AIDS in the United States, United Kingdom, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Haiti, and elsewhere, this uniquely interdisciplinary course will incorporate insights from the fields of public health, medical anthropology, and ethnomusicology. Studying the HIV/AIDS epidemic through the lens of musical expression, we will ask how individuals and communities affected by HIV/AIDS have mobilized musical sound in response to the disease. Topics addressed within the class will include musical representations of HIV/AIDS within queer communities; the use of music in public health campaigns to raise awareness about the disease; and the mobilization of musical performance within grassroots support groups for individuals affected by HIV/AIDS.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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MUSC 468-1 West African Drumming Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1815 1930 Strong Auditorium Room 011 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AAAS 168-2, ENS 215-2, MUSC 168A-1 (P), MUSC 468-1
Instructors: Kerfala Bangoura
Description: Led by Master Drummer Fana Bangoura, the West African Drumming Ensemble is dedicated to the dynamic percussive traditions of Guinea. The ensemble combines the iconic djembe hand drum with a trio of drums played with sticks, known as dunun, sangban, and kenkeni. The powerful, multi-part relationships established by this trio of drums provide a rhythmic foundation for the ensemble, enabling djembe players to develop technique in executing both accompaniment and solo parts. Drawing upon his experience as a soloist with the internationally acclaimed groups Les Percussions de Guinée and Les Ballets Africains, Fana engages ensemble players with a wide repertory of music from various regions of Guinea, including the rhythms of the Susu, Malinke, and Baga language groups.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Naval Science
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
NAVS 098-1 Navigation I Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 730 850 Harkness Room 114 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Emily Rodriguez
Description: International and United States inland rules of the nautical road, relative motion, Vector-Analysis Theory, formation tactics and ship employment. Introduction to naval operations and operations analysis, ship behavior and characteristics in maneuvering, applied aspects of ship handling, and afloat communications
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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NAVS 249-1 Ships Systems II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 730 850 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
34
Instructors: Alexander Dudek
Description: Investigate theories and implementation of Naval weapons systems. Explore fundamentals of target detection (using RADAR and SONAR), warhead and fuse design, guidance and control principles, propulsion and launching, fire control, and mine warfare. Case studies are utilized during the course to aid the student in understanding the concepts of Command, Control, and Communication and as a starting point for discussions on leadership and ethics. Current world events and historical issues are discussed as applicable.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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NAVS 250-1 Seapower Maritime Affairs Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 730 850 Dewey Room 2110E 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
34
Instructors: Adam Karaoguz
Description: U.S. naval history from the American Revolution to the present with emphasis on major developments. Geopolitical theory of Mahan, applied to the current maritime strategies of the United States. Instruction will include lecture, discussion and films. Two texts will be used in conjunction with handouts.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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NAVS 251-1 Evolution of Warfare Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 730 850 Morey Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: John Boehles
Description: Lecture
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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NAVS 266-1 Leadership & Ethics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 730 850 Morey Room 321 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
35
Instructors: Russel Sanchez
Description: Explore the moral, ethical, and legal issues facing leaders in industry, society, and the military while reinforcing the key underlying principles of leadership. Case studies are used in a seminar format to underscore the issues. The overall objective of this course is to develop critical thinking and reasoning skills in leadership situations, particularly those that pose a moral or ethical dilemma to the individual.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Neuroscience
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
NSCI 203-1 Lab in Neurobiology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1230 1640 Meliora Room 111 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: BCSC 203-1 (P), NSCI 203-1
Instructors: Jude Mitchell; Adam Snyder; David Kornack
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Introduces the various methods used in neurobiological research. Covers anatomical, behavioral, molecular, and physiological approaches to studying neural organization and function and concludes with a research project that extends over a period of five weeks. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR A WORKSHOP WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN SECTION.

Prerequisites: NSCI 201/BCSC 240 with lab, STAT 212
Offered: Spring
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NSCI 203-2 Lab in Neurobiology Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1230 1640 Meliora Room 111 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: BCSC 203-2 (P), NSCI 203-2
Instructors: Jude Mitchell; Adam Snyder; David Kornack
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Introduces the various methods used in neurobiological research. Covers anatomical, behavioral, molecular, and physiological approaches to studying neural organization and function and concludes with a research project that extends over a period of five weeks. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR A WORKSHOP WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN SECTION.

Prerequisites: NSCI 201/BCSC 240 with lab, and STAT 212
Offered: Spring
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NSCI 203-3 Lab in Neurobiology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1220 1640 Meliora Room 111 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: BCSC 203-3 (P), NSCI 203-3
Instructors: Jude Mitchell; Adam Snyder; David Kornack
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Introduces the various methods used in neurobiological research. Covers anatomical, behavioral, molecular, and physiological approaches to studying neural organization and function and concludes with a research project that extends over a period of five weeks. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR A WORKSHOP WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN SECTION.

Prerequisites: NSCI 201/BCSC 240 with lab, and STAT 212
Offered: Spring
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NSCI 244-1 Neuroethology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Hylan Building Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
48
Co-Located: BCSC 244-1 (P), NSCI 244-1
Instructors: Renee Miller
Description: Explores the neural basis of naturally occurring animal behaviors. Emphasizes how information is integrated from interactions between molecules, cells, and groups of cells, all of which are necessary to produce behavior. Considers how hormones, neural development, anatomy, physiology, and evolution lead to behaviors such as orientation, communication, feeding, and reproduction.

Prerequisite: NSCI 201/BCSC 240
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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NSCI 246-1 Biology of Mental Disorders Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Goergen Hall Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
68 		Capacity     
80
Co-Located: BCSC 246-1 (P), BCSC 546-1, NSCI 246-1, PSYC 246-1
Instructors: Renee Miller
Description: Examines the neurobiology of anxiety/phobic conditions, mood disorders, and chronic psychotic states, particularly schizophrenia. Considers definitions of psychiatric syndromes, the problems of diagnosis, brain organization, and neurotransmitter systems involved in state functions. Introduces research approaches including epidemiologic, phenomenologic, family/adoption, longitudinal descriptive, psychophysiologic, neuropharmacologic, genetic linkage, and postmortem studies; emphasizes recent in vivo brain imaging and neuroreceptor studies.

Prerequisite: NSCI 201/BCSC 240
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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NSCI 249-1 Developmental Neurobiology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
27 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: BCSC 249-1 (P), NSCI 249-1
Instructors: Mary Wines-Samuelson
Description: Advanced treatment of the development of the nervous system, including the nature/nurture issue and factors that influence the development of neural organization and function. Topics include the production, migration, differentiation and survival of neurons; functional specialization of neural regions; axonal navigation; target mapping. Compares and contrasts developmental plasticity with forms of neural plasticity exhibited in adults.

Prerequisite: NSCI 201/BCSC 240
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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NSCI 250-1 Acquired Brain Disorders Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1640 School of Medicine and Dentistry Room 28130 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: BCSC 250-1 (P), NSCI 250-1
Instructors: Renee Miller
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This upper level elective course provides unique perspectives on the clinical diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of acquired brain injuries and diseases, along with their epidemiology and basic research findings, including those gleaned from associated animal models. It is intended for highly motivated students in their senior year with a strong inclination toward medical school or other clinical practice. The student will learn about clinical diagnostic methods, practice differential diagnosis and treatment planning through simulated (virtual) cases, and shadow clinicians as part of this course. Students will also engage with primary research literature to understand underlying pathological mechanisms for diseases such as stroke, cancer, epilepsy as well as neuropathic pain and traumatic brain injury.

Prerequisite: NSCI 201/BCSC 240
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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NSCI 252-1 Functional Neuroanatomy Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 School Of Medicine And Dentistry Room 36408 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
24
Co-Located: BCSC 252-1 (P), NSCI 252-1
Instructors: Sarah McConnell
Description: This course examines the structure and function of the nervous system and considers the implications of relevant injuries and diseases. Learning objectives will be addressed through lectures, laboratories, discussions, and student presentations.

Prerequisite: BIOL 110 or equivalent
Offered: Spring
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NSCI 257-1 Advanced Computational Neuroscience Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Meliora Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: BCSC 257-1 (P), BCSC 557-1, CSC 243-1, CSC 443-2, NSCI 257-1
Instructors: Ralf Haefner
Description: This is a seminar-style course for advanced undergraduate and graduate students covering multiple areas of computational neuroscience by weekly readings and student presentations. Many of the topics are deeper explorations of topics covered in NSCI 247 Introduction to Computational Neuroscience, focusing on the sensory system, decision-making, action selection and active inference, especially from a probabilistic and normative perspective. The reading list is somewhat flexible and adaptable to student interest. There is an opportunity for a final project but this is not required.

Prerequisite: NSCI 247 or permission of instructor
Offered: Spring
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NSCI 302-1 Senior Seminar in Neuroscience Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1400 1515 Meliora Room 366 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
40
Instructors: David Kornack
Description: To be taken for one semester in the senior year (2 credits). Format can vary from an emphasis on exploring neuroscience as a scientific career to more thematically-based seminars dealing with recent research in neuroscience. Oral and written presentation skills are sharpened through a series of student-led presentations on current issues or topics in neuroscience, as well as a series of short reports.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Optics
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OPT 202-1 Physical Optics Lab Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1815 2155 Wilmot Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
24
Instructors: Jim Zavislan
Description: This lab complements OPT 261. Experiments cover interference and diffraction phenomena, introduction to optical information processing and electronic imaging systems with emphasis on error analysis.
Offered: Spring
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OPT 202-2 Physical Optics Lab Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1520 Wilmot Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
24
Instructors: Jim Zavislan
Description: This lab complements OPT 261. Experiments cover interference and diffraction phenomena, introduction to optical information processing and electronic imaging systems with emphasis on error analysis.
Offered: Spring
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OPT 202-3 Physical Optics Lab Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1805 Wilmot Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Jim Zavislan
Description: This lab complements OPT 261. Experiments cover interference and diffraction phenomena, introduction to optical information processing and electronic imaging systems with emphasis on error analysis.
Offered: Spring
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OPT 204-1 Sources and Detectors Lab Lecture Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 900 1015 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
43 		Capacity     
55
Instructors: Svetlana Lukishova
Description: This lab complements OPT 225 and provides the basic concepts required for understanding the operation of optical sources and photodetectors. It covers important sources such as lasers and light-emitting diodes as well several types of photodetectors.

Prerequisites: OPT 203 or instructor permission
Offered: Spring
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OPT 211-2 Matlab for Optics I Lecture Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 900 950 Goergen Hall Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
52 		Capacity     
75
Instructors: Gregory Savich
Description: Teaches techniques of transforming continuous problems to discrete mathematical models. Students learn computational methods for solving problems in optics using high level software. Includes labs.
Offered: Spring
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OPT 214-1 Intro Opt Sys. Layout/Anlys Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1515 Goergen Hall Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
19
Instructors: John Bowen
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course gives engineering undergraduates early exposure to the tools (e.g. Zemax/CODE V) needed for most summer internships while introducing methods for the design and analysis of an optical system. Topics covered will include specifying system requirements, layout, optimization, and evaluation. Examples covered will include standard imaging, afocal sytems, and illumination.  A Windows laptop for in class use is highly recommended. Mac computers do not work as well.

Prerequisite: OPT 241
Offered: Spring
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OPT 222-1 Color Technology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
26 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: OPT 222-1 (P), OPT 422-1
Instructors: Jennifer Kruschwitz
Description: Color Technology is more than just pigments, dyes, paints, and textiles. Everywhere in modern technology (smart phones, tablets, displays, lighting, cinema, printers, etc.) is the need for a basic understanding of how we measure, identify, communicate, specify, and render color from one device to another. This course addresses color order systems, color spaces, color measurement, color difference, additive and subtractive color, and rendering of color images. The student will learn about color matching, lighting conditions, metamerism, and color constancy. At the semesters end, each student will have compiled a Color Toolbox with useful functions to derive different necessary color values within MatLab.

Prerequisites: OPT 211, Linear Algebra
Offered: Spring
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OPT 223-1 Quantum Theory Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Computer Studies Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
43 		Capacity     
66
Instructors: Andrew Berger
Description: Intro to quantum mechanics in the context of modern optics and optical technology. Wave mechanics as applied to electrons in crystals and in quantum wells and the optical properties of materials. Semiconductor junctions in photodetectors and photoemitters. You can do this my Optics superstars!
Offered: Spring
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OPT 225-1 Sources and Detectors Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Goergen Hall Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
44 		Capacity     
66
Instructors: Jaime Cardenas
Description: This course provides the basic concepts required for understanding radiometry and the operation of optical sources and photodetectors. It covers important sources such as lasers and light-emitting diodes as well several types of photodetectors.
Offered: Spring
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OPT 232-1 Opto Mechanical Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Goergen Hall Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ME 232-1 (P), ME 432-1, MSC 432-1, OPT 232-1, OPT 432-1, TME 432-1
Instructors: Victor Genberg
Description: System performance of glass with metal or plastic, kinematic design, material limitations. Applications to optical metrology, alignment, geometry 2D and 3D. This course is an OPT elective.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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OPT 244-1 Lens Design Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Goergen Hall Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: OPT 244-1 (P), OPT 444-1
Instructors: Julie Bentley
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: You will gain knowledge of classical as well as modern approaches to the science and art of contemporary lens design. Using state-of-the-art optical design software (both CODE V and Zemax) you will be prepared to design and analyze the next generation of optics, from cinema primes to bio-tech microscopes to wafer photolithographic fabrication and inspection tools. Grounding the design philosophy in third order aberration theory, we move on to achromatization, optical design forms for objectives, eyepieces, reflective, and illumination systems. Advanced surface types including aspheres, diffractives, and gradient index are covered. Optimization theory and methods to improve a design are fundamental, followed closely by tolerancing and compensation techniques for predicting as-built performance. The course concludes with an individual lens design project which will be pitched to a panel of experts
Offered: Spring
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OPT 247-1 Advanced Optical Coatings Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: OPT 247-1 (P), OPT 447-1, TEO 447-1
Instructors: Jennifer Kruschwitz
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Specialty and custom coatings and their scientific applications and business uses.
Offered: Spring
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OPT 248-1 Vision and the Eye Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: BCSC 223-1, OPT 248-1 (P), OPT 448-1, TEO 448-1
Instructors: Sarah Walters
Description: How the human eye's optical and neural factors process color and spatial information includes comparison with the design and capabilities of other animals' eyes.
Offered: Spring
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OPT 254-1 Nanometrology Laboratory Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 800 930 Goergen Hall Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
8
Co-Located: OPT 254-1 (P), PHYS 371-1
Instructors: Svetlana Lukishova
Description: This advanced, 4-credit-hour laboratory class (in person) for juniors and seniors (sophomores should contact the instructor for permission) consists of three laboratory modules accompanied by lecture materials: Module 1. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM); Module 2. Atomic force microscopy; Module 3. Confocal fluorescence and optical microscopy. In addition to one 2 h lab per week, topics covered in two 1-1.5 h lab lectures per week include function and capabilities of the SEM and TEM, the principles of atomic force microscopy, confocal fluorescence microscopy of single nanoemitters, optical microscopy including high-resolution optical microscopy, and discussion of advances of nanoscience and nanotechnology.  The laboratory components will use the facilities of the University of Rochester Integrated Nanosystems Center and the Institute of Optics. Students are expected to have completed a sequence in introductory physics. Maximum 8 students can take this course. Grading will be based on three lab reports and three quizzes. The schedule of OPT 254/PHYS 371 will be selected before starting this class for the days and time convenient to every student.   

Please, contact Prof. Svetlana Lukishova (lukishov@optics.rochester.edu) for all questions. This is a required class for the University of Rochester undergraduate program on the Certificate for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering. If you are interested in the Certificate program, please contact Prof. Lukishova.

Offered: Spring
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OPT 261-3 Interference and Diffraction Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Goergen Hall Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
42 		Capacity     
80
Co-Located: OPT 261-3 (P), PHYS 261-3
Instructors: Nick Vamivakas
Description: Complex representation of waves; scalar diffraction theory; Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction and application to measurement; diffraction and image formation; optical transfer function; coherent optical systems, optical data processing, and holography.
Offered: Spring
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OPT 265-1 Introduction to Lasers Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 900 1140 Goergen Hall Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Xi-Cheng Zhang
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course will introduce the fundamental knowledge of laser systems. It is designed for the science and the engineering undergraduate students who are without advanced theoretical and experimental optical backgrounds. The course will cover the basic laser principles, laser design and operation, laser safety, and applications in different industries such as manufacturing, telecommunications, healthcare, etc. Students will be introduced to spontaneous and stimulated emission, population inversion, optical resonator and cavity design, Gaussian beams, laser output characteristics, pulsed lasers (Q switching, and mode-locking). Different types of lasers (gas, liquid, solid, and fiber) will be briefly discussed. The class format is weekly lecture and lab demonstration (weight about 55-45). Prerequisites: OPT 225 or Instructor Per
Offered: Spring
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OPT 272-1 Advanced Biomedical Microscopy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Goergen Hall Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: BME 272-1 (P), BME 472-1, OPT 272-1, OPT 472-1
Instructors: Michael Giacomelli
Description: This course will review the engineering of optical system for biomedical microscopy by exploring widely used biomedical imaging systems such as confocal microscopy, multiphoton microscopy and optical coherent tomography among others. These techniques will be introduced in the context of the imaging problems they solve with a goal of giving students a broad, undergraduate level understanding of the constraints and solutions to biomedical microscopy. The graduate version of this course will include additional assignments and be appropriate for graduate students starting out in biomedical optics. Prerequisites: OPT261 and BME270 or permission of instructor.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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OPT 287-1 Math Methods in Opt & Physics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
49 		Capacity     
60
Co-Located: MATH 287-1, OPT 287-1 (P)
Instructors: William Renninger
Description: Techniques used in mathematical study of optical phenomena. Emphasis on gaining insight and experience in the use of these powerful and elegant tools for describing, solving and resolving optical systems and schema.
Offered: Spring
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OPT 307-1 Sem Practicum Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1530 Goergen Hall Room 417 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: MSC 307-1, MSC 507-1, OPT 307-1 (P), OPT 407-1
Instructors: Nicholas Bigelow
Description: Overview of techniques for using the SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) and Scanning Probe (AFM, STM) and analyzing data. Students perform independent lab projects by semester's end. Students need the instructor's permission to take this course. E-mail Brian McIntyre at brian.mcintyre@rochester.edu.
Offered: Fall Spring
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OPT 311-1 Opt Senior Design Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1150 1240 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
36 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: OPT 311-1 (P), OPT 321-1
Instructors: Wayne Knox
Description: Documenting each stage,student teams design, build, and test an optical device or instrument for a faculty, community or industrial sponsor.
Offered: Spring
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OPT 321-1 Senior Theses II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1150 1240 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: OPT 311-1 (P), OPT 321-1
Instructors: Wayne Knox
Description: With faculty supervision: reading, experimentation, and writing of final thesis and presentation of results. Students wishing to major in 'Optics' will register for this course.
Offered: Spring
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OPT 407-1 Sem Practicum Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1530 Goergen Hall Room 417 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: MSC 307-1, MSC 507-1, OPT 307-1 (P), OPT 407-1
Instructors: Nicholas Bigelow
Description: Overview of techniques for using the SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) and Scanning Probe (AFM, STM) and analyzing data. Students perform independent lab projects commensurate with their graduate research.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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OPT 412-1 Quantum Mechanics - Optics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Bausch & Lomb Room 270 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: OPT 412-1 (P), TEO 412-1
Instructors: Taco Visser
Description: This course covers the topics in modern quantum theory which are relevant to atomic physics, radiation theory, and quantum optics. The theory is developed in terms of Hilbert space operators. The quantum mechanics of simple systems, including the harmonic oscillator, spin, and the one-electron atoms, are reviewed.Finally, methods of calculation useful in modern quantum optics are discussed. These include manipulation of coherent states, the Bloch spere representation, and conventional perturbation theory.Prerequisite: One course in undergraduate wave mechanics or permission of instructor.References: Cohen-Tannoudji, Diu and Laloe, Merzbacher, Schiff, Dirac.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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OPT 421-1 Opt Properties of Materials Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: ECE 421-1, MSC 470-1, OPT 421-1 (P), TEO 421-1
Instructors: Gary Wicks
Description: Optical properties of materials, primarily via interaction of light with materials electrons and phonons. Excitons, plasmons, polaritons. Optical processes: reflection, refraction, absorption, scattering, Raman scattering (spontaneous and stimulated), light emission (spontaneous and stimulated). Kramers-Kronig relations. Electrooptic effects and optical nonlinearities in solids. Plasmonics. Emphasizes semiconductors; metals and insulators, and gases also discussed.
Offered: Spring
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OPT 422-1 Color Technology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
26 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: OPT 222-1 (P), OPT 422-1
Instructors: Jennifer Kruschwitz
Description: Color Technology is more than just pigments, dyes, paints, and textiles. Everywhere in modern technology (smart phones, tablets, displays, lighting, cinema, printers, etc.) is the need for a basic understanding of how we measure, identify, communicate, specify, and render color from one device to another. This course addresses color order systems, color spaces, color measurement, color difference, additive and subtractive color, and rendering of color images. The student will learn about color matching, lighting conditions, metamerism, and color constancy. At the semesters end, each student will have compiled a Color Toolbox with useful functions to derive different necessary color values within MatLab.

Prerequisites: Linear Algebra, MatLab
Offered: Spring Summer
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OPT 423-1 Detection of Optcl Radiation Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Goergen Hall Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: OPT 423-1 (P), TEO 423-1
Instructors: Chunlei Guo
Description: The course covers modeling of optical radiation, human perception of light, emission of thermal radiation, statistics of light and detectors, basic parameters of photodetectors, and different types of detectors.
References: Robert W. Boyd, Radiometry and the Detection of Optical Radiation, Wiley, 1983, ISBN 0-471-86188-X; William L. Wolfe, Introduction to Radiometry, SPIE, 1998, ISBN 0-8194-2758-6; Bahaa E. A. Saleh and Malvin C. Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics, Wiley, 2007, ISBN 978-0471358329
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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OPT 429-1 Chm Bonds:From Molcls to Mat Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Hylan Building Room 105 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: CHEM 456-1 (P), MSC 456-1, OPT 429-1
Instructors: Todd Krauss
Description: An introduction to the electronic structure of extended materials systems from both a chemical bonding and a condensed matter physics perspective. The course will discuss materials of all length scales from individual molecules to macroscopic three-dimensional crystals, but will focus on zero, one, and two dimensional inorganic materials at the nanometer scale. Specific topics include semiconductor nanocrystals, quantum wires, carbon nanotubes, and conjugated polymers.
Offered: Spring
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OPT 432-1 Opto-Mechanical Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Goergen Hall Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ME 232-1 (P), ME 432-1, MSC 432-1, OPT 232-1, OPT 432-1, TME 432-1
Instructors: Victor Genberg
Description: The mechanical design and analysis of optical components and systems will be studied. Topics will include kinematic mounting of optical elements, the analysis of adhesive bonds, and the influence of environmental effects such as gravity, temperature, and vibration on the performance of optical systems. Additional topic include analysis of adaptive optics, the design of lightweight mirrors, thermo-optics and stress-optics (stress birefringence) effects. Emphasis will be placed on integrated analysis whish includes the data transfer between optical design codes and mechanical FEA codes. A term project is required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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OPT 438-1 Selected Topics in Augmented and Virtual Reality Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Todd Union Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
0
Co-Located: BCSC 571-1, BME 413-1, CSC 414-1, CVSC 535-1, ECE 411-1 (P), NSCI 416-1, OPT 438-1
Instructors: Mujdat Cetin; Chenliang Xu; Ross Maddox
Restrictions: Instructor permission required for Undergraduates - AS&E
Description:
This is the second course offered as part of the PhD training program on augmented and virtual reality. It builds on the first course, Introduction to Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR). The goal of the course is to provide exposure to problems in the AR/VR domain addressed by various disciplines. The course consists of three one-month long modules in a semester. Modules engage students in particular aspects of AR/VR or hands-on experience on AR/VR. Modules to be offered in various years include: fundamentals of optics for AR/VR; AR/VR in the silicon; foundations of visual perception in the context of AR/VR; computer audition and acoustic rendering; measuring the human brain; deep learning and visual recognition for AR/VR; brain-computer interfacing in a virtual environment; 3D interfaces and interaction; AR/VR for collaborative education & professional training. In Spring 2023, the following three modules will be offered: 1) Deep learning and visual recognition for AR/VR. (Prof. Chenliang Xu) Recent developments in deep learning have significantly advanced state-of-the-art visual recognition in problems such as object detection, activity recognition, and semantic segmentation. In this module, students will learn core concepts in deep learning, including convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks. They will receive hands-on experience using popular deep-learning libraries like PyTorch to build visual recognition algorithms for AR/VR systems. 2) Measuring the human brain. (Prof. Ross Maddox) This module will introduce students to studies of human brain function using non-invasive methods. It will focus on experimental paradigms and data analysis in the time and frequency domains. Neural encoding and decoding models and applications to brain-computer interfaces will also be discussed. The module will have a mixed format, with lectures and labs. Lab exercises will be based on analyzing real data from human subjects. 3) Professional encounters with leading AR/VR researchers. This module will involve a series of seminars and discussion sessions with leading AR/VR researchers from academia and industry. Prerequisites: ECE 410 or OPT 410 or BME 410 or NSCI 415 or CSC 413 or CVSC 534
INSTRUCTORS: Chenliang Xu; Ross Maddox; Mujdat Cetin
Offered: Spring
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OPT 442-1 Instrumental Optics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1815 2055 Goergen Hall Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
32 		Capacity     
50
Co-Located: OPT 442-1 (P), TEO 442-1
Instructors: Greg Schmidt
Description: This course provides an in-depth understanding of the principles and practices of optical instrumentation: Optical metrology, including wavefront and surface metrology, interferometric instruments and interferogram analysis, coherence and coherence-based instruments, phase measurement and phase-shifting interferometry; spectroscopic instrumentation, including the Fourier transfrom spectrometer, the Fabry-Perot interferometer, and the grating monochromator; image plane characterization (star test, Ronchi test, and modulation transfer function); the influence of illumination and partial coherence on image forming systems, including microscopes, systems for projection lithography, and displays.
Offered: Spring
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OPT 444-1 Lens Design Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Goergen Hall Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
41 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: OPT 244-1 (P), OPT 444-1
Instructors: Julie Bentley
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: A review of geometrical optics and 3rd order aberration theory. Specification documents. Image assessment: ray intercept plots, wavefront analysis, spot diagrams, MTFs, and point spread functions. Optimization theory, damped least squares, global optimization, merit functions, variables and constraints. Glass, plastic, UV and IR materials. Aspheres, GRINs, and diffractive optics. Secondary spectrum, spherochromatism, higher order aberrations. Induced aberrations. Splitting and compounding lens elements. Aplanats and anastigmats. Refractive design forms: landscape lens, achromatic doublet, Cooke triplet, Double Gauss, Petzval lens, wide angle, telephoto, and eyepieces. Reflective design forms: parabola, Cassegrain, Schmidt, Ritchey Cretian, Gregorian, three mirror anastigmat, and reflective triplet. Computer aided lens design exercises using CodeV - includes a 4-6 week individual lens design project.
Offered: Spring
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OPT 447-1 Advanced Optical Coatings Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: OPT 247-1 (P), OPT 447-1, TEO 447-1
Instructors: Jennifer Kruschwitz
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course will cover such topics as the effects of dispersion, scatter, and inhomogeneity in multilayer interference coating designs. Attention will be given toward manufacturability of designs and meeting common optical specifications. Design assignments will address fields including, but not limited to Ophthalmic, Lighting, Display, Anti-counterfeiting, Laser, and Infrared applications. Each student will be given access to current market design, optical characterization, and post-process analysis software.
Offered: Spring
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OPT 448-1 Vision and the Eye Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: BCSC 223-1, OPT 248-1 (P), OPT 448-1, TEO 448-1
Instructors: Sarah Walters
Description: This course will reveal the intricate optical and neural machinery inside the eye that allows us to see. It will describe the physical and biological processes that set the limits on our perception of patterns of light that vary in luminance and color across space and time, We will compare the human eye with the acute eyes of predatory birds and the compound eyes of insects. The course will also describe exciting new optical technologies for correcting vision and for imaging the inside of the eye with unprecedented resolution, and how these technologies can help us understand and even cure diseases of the eye. The class is intended to be accessible to advanced undergraduate students, especially those majoring in Optics, Biomedical Engineering, or Brain and Cognitive Science, but is recommended for anyone with a curiosity about vision or an interest in biomedical applications of optics. The course will also serve as an introduction to the study of vision for graduate students.
Offered: Spring
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OPT 456-1 Optics Laboratory Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1300 1600 Wilmot Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
24
Instructors: Jennifer Kruschwitz
Description: This is an intensive laboratory course with experiments that likely included the following: 1. Transverse and axial mode structure of a gas laser.2. Detector calibration using a blackbody.3. Production of a white light viewable transmission hologram.4. Acousto-optic modulation.5. Twyman-Green interferometry.6. Optical Fibers Laser.7. The Pockels cell as an optical modulator.8. Optical beats (heterodyning) and CATV.9. The YAG laser and second harmonic generation.10. Fourier optics and optical filtering.11. Lens Evaluation.12. Modulation Transfer Function.13. Applications and properties of pulsed dye laser.14. Holographic optical elements.15. Properties of Gaussian beams.
Offered: Fall Spring
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OPT 462-1 Electromagnetic Waves Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
29 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: OPT 462-1 (P), TEO 462-1
Instructors: Govind Agrawal
Description: This course covers topics in electromagnetic theory that serve as a foundation for classical descriptions of many optical phenomena. A partial list of topics includes: review of Maxwell's equations, boundary conditions, and wave equations; polarization of light; crystal optics; vector, scalar, and Hertz potentials; radiation from accelerated charges; electric and magnetic dipole radiation; Lorentz atom description of the interaction of light with matter; scattering; optical waveguides.
Offered: Spring
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OPT 464-1 Nanophotonic & Nanomechanical Devices Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Gavett Hall Room 312 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
28
Co-Located: ECE 436-1 (P), MSC 437-1, OPT 464-1, TEE 436-1
Description: Various types of typical nanophotonic structures and nanomechanical structures, fundamental optical and mechanical properties: micro/nano-resonators, photonic crystals, plasmonic structures, metamaterials, nano-optomechanical structures. Cavity nonlinearoptics, cavity quantum optics, and cavity optomechanics. Fundamental physics and applications, state-of-art devices and current research trends. This class is designed primarily for graduate students. It may be suitable for senior 

undergraduates if they have required basic knowledge. prerequisites:

This class is designed primarily for graduate students. It may be suitable for senior undergraduates if they have required basic knowledge. ECE 230 or 235,/435; OPT 262 or 462, or 468, or 223, or 412;  PHY 237, or 407
Offered: Spring
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OPT 465-1 Principles of Lasers Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
34 		Capacity     
34
Co-Located: ME 465-1, MSC 465-1, OPT 465-1 (P), PHYS 435-1, TEO 465-1
Instructors: Pablo Postigo Resa
Description: This course provides an up-to-date knowledge of modern laser systems. Topics covered include quantum mechanical treatments to two-level atomic systems, optical gain, homogenous and inhomogenous broadening, laser resonators and their modes, Gaussian beams, cavity design, pumping schemes, rate equations, Q switching, mode-locking, various gas, liquid, and solid-state lasers.
Offered: Spring
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OPT 472-1 Advanced Biomedical Microscopy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Goergen Hall Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: BME 272-1 (P), BME 472-1, OPT 272-1, OPT 472-1
Instructors: Michael Giacomelli
Description: This course will review the engineering of optical system for biomedical microscopy by exploring widely used biomedical imaging systems such as confocal microscopy, multiphoton microscopy and optical coherent tomography among others. These techniques will be introduced in the context of the imaging problems they solve with a goal of giving students a broad, undergraduate level understanding of the constraints and solutions to biomedical microscopy. The graduate version of this course will include additional assignments and be appropriate for graduate students starting out in biomedical optics. Prerequisites: OPT261 and BME270.
Offered: Spring
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OPT 481-1 Gen Management of New Venture Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1815 2055 Goergen Hall Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
35 		Capacity     
50
Co-Located: OPT 481-1, TEM 411-1 (P)
Instructors: Jim Zavislan
Description: This course provides an opportunity to examine the management practices associated with innovation and new business development. The analysis of entrepreneurship is evaluated from the perspective of start-up ventures and established companies. There is an appraisal of the similarities and differences in the skills and the functions required to develop successful projects in both types of situations. A range of management issues is discussed, including organizational development, analysis of market opportunities, financial planning and control, capitalization, sources of funds, the due-diligence process, and valuing the venture.Course Approach: To expose students to various facets of new venture management and entrepreneurship, classes will consist of lectures, evaluation of current business situation, and presentations by guest speakers. Furthermore, two (one for engineers) case studies must be prepared for the credit.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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OPT 482-1 Product Development and Technology Management Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1815 2055 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: OPT 482-1, TEM 441-1 (P)
Instructors: Mark Wilson
Description: In this class we will explore the ISO 9000 product development process and illustrate how to use this process to develop both products and research systems that meet necessary specifications. The class will use systems such as video projectors, CD-ROM drives, bar-code scanners and scanning laser microscopes as examples to illustrate the various concepts.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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OPT 489-1 The Retina-Brain Interface Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1530 1730 School of Medicine and Dentistry Room G3111 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: David Williams
Description: This course reviews the current state of knowledge about the computational power of the retina and its contribution to vision and behavior. The format of the course will be a combination of lectures and discussion of relevant papers selected from the literature. The instructors will deliver some of these lectures and there will be guest lectures by faculty from UR as well as other institutions.
The scientific content of the course should be of interest to graduate students in the departments of Brain and Cognitive Science and Neuroscience. A number of papers we will read will describe advance optical engineering technology applied to the eye, including adaptive optics ophthalmoscopy, so the course may also be of interest to graduate students from the Institute of Optics and Biomedical Engineering, especially those with an interest in instrumentation for the eye. Undergraduates will be accepted into the course with the permission of either of the instructors.
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OPT 491-1 Master's Reading in Optics Laboratory Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
6
Instructors: Jennifer Kruschwitz
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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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OPT 552-01 Quantum Optics of the Electromagnetic Field Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Bausch & Lomb Room 208 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: OPT 552-01 (P), PHYS 532-01
Instructors: Machiel Blok
Description: Properties of the free quantized electromagnetic field, quantum theory of coherence, squeezed states, theory of photoelectric detection, correlation measurements, atomic resonance fluorescence, cooperative effects, quantum effects in nonlinear optics.

Prerequisite: PHYS 531 is recommended
Offered: Spring
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OPT 596-1 Optics Colloquium Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1525 1640 Goergen Hall Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
38 		Capacity     
100
Instructors: Jannick Rolland-Thompson
Description: Colloquium course for Optics PhD students only
Offered: Fall Spring
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OPT 894-1 Co-Op Program in Optics Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Jennifer Kruschwitz
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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OPT 894-2 Co-Op Program in Optics Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Govind Agrawal
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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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OPT 894-3 Co-Op Program in Optics Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Qiang Lin
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Public Health
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PHLT 101-1 Intro to Public Health Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Morey Room 321 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
116 		Capacity     
120
Co-Located: PHLT 101-1 (P), SUST 112-1
Instructors: Courtney Jones
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Discussion of history and definitions of public health and emerging themes: Public Health Disparities (health and wealth; social justice); Issues in Public Health (lead poisoning; tobacco; obesity; emergency; clean water/air; injury; health systems/reform); and Global Health Issues (globalization and development; maternal and child health).
Offered: Fall Spring
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PHLT 102-1 Intro to Public Health II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Morey Room 321 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
102 		Capacity     
125
Instructors: Christopher Seplaki
Description: Introduction to four core areas of public health: biostatistics, health policy and management, environmental health science, and social and behavioral sciences. PHLT 101 is a pre-requisite.
Offered: Spring
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PHLT 180-1 Religion and Public Health: Collaboration on the Front Lines Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Interfaith Chapel Room 200 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: PHLT 180-1, RELC 180-1 (P)
Instructors: Denise Yarbrough
Description: This course will examine the intersection of religion/spirituality and public health, locally, globally and nationally.  Extensive evidence-based research has shown that religion and spirituality have a significant impact on the health of individuals.  More recently, researchers have found that religion/spirituality is a social determinant of public health, making it a factor that public health practitioners should consider when approaching public health challenges such as responses to pandemics, gun violence, women’s reproductive health, or entrenched political conflicts.  We will survey the research establishing the connection between religion and health/mental health and spend time analyzing a variety of case studies illustrating how they have intersected in real world scenarios.  This is a community engaged course, with Common Ground Health joining us as our community partner. Students will be assigned to one of several projects currently being pursued by Common Ground Health, working with public health practitioners at that organization to complete projects. 
Offered: Spring
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PHLT 201W-1 Environmental Health Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Morey Room 525 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: PHLT 201W-1 (P), SUST 210-1
Instructors: Edwin VanWijngaarden
Description: This course covers the basic principles used to evaluate the potential human health risk of exposure to environmental contaminants in air, water, and food. Pre-requisites: BIOL 110/112; CHEM 131; PHLT 103 or permission of instructor.
Offered: Spring
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PHLT 206-2 Global Politics of Gender and Health Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1650 1930 Morey Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: GSWS 206-1 (P), GSWS 406-1, PHLT 206-2
Instructors: Rachel O'Donnell
Description: This interdisciplinary course is an introduction to critical concepts and approaches used to investigate the intersections of gender, health, and illness, particularly in the context of individual lives both locally and transnationally. Special attention will be paid to the historical and contemporary development of medical knowledge and practice, including debates on the roles of health-care consumers and practitioners, as well as global linkages among the health industry, international trade, and health sector reform in the developing world. Emerging issues around the politics of global health include clinical research studies, bodily modification practices, and reproductive justice movements. This is a writing-intensive course and may be counted toward the University of Rochester’s Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies (GSW) major, minor, or cluster.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHLT 215W-1 Public Health Anthropology Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ANTH 215-1, PHLT 215W-1 (P)
Instructors: Nancy Chin
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Using a critical lens, this course examines how forms of social organization create global health for some groups and poor health for other groups. Pre-requisites: PHLT 101 or ANTH 101.
Offered: Spring
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PHLT 227-1 Music, Ethnography & HIV/AIDS Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 540 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: AAAS 222-1, ANTH 240-1, GSWS 241-1, MUSC 236-1 (P), MUSC 436-1, PHLT 227-1
Instructors: Jennifer Kyker
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Addressing the devastating effects of HIV/AIDS in the United States, United Kingdom, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Haiti, and elsewhere, this uniquely interdisciplinary course will incorporate insights from the fields of public health, medical anthropology, and ethnomusicology. Studying the HIV/AIDS epidemic through the lens of musical expression, we will ask how individuals and communities affected by HIV/AIDS have mobilized musical sound in response to the disease. Topics addressed within the class will include musical representations of HIV/AIDS within queer communities; the use of music in public health campaigns to raise awareness about the disease; and the mobilization of musical performance within grassroots support groups for individuals affected by HIV/AIDS.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHLT 230-1 Public Health Law and Policy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Lattimore Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: PHLT 230-1 (P), PSCI 230-1
Instructors: Molly McNulty
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The course introduces the legal and social justice frameworks for urgent public health issues, such as vaccinations, tobacco regulation and gun control. Pre-requisites: PHLT 116 or PHLT 236 or previous policy or public health coursework; juniors & seniors only.
Offered: Spring
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PHLT 234W-1 Maternal Child Health Policy Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Morey Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: PHLT 234W-1 (P), PSCI 231W-1
Instructors: Molly McNulty
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Students will learn how government funds, organizes and delivers health care, broadly defined, to mothers, children, and adolescents; as well as legal and policy writing skills relevant to advocacy, such as issue fact sheets, legislative testimony, and letters to the editor. Pre-requisites: PHLT 116, PHLT 236, or PHLT 230 required or previous policy or public health coursework; juniors & seniors only
Offered: Spring
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PHLT 238-1 Environmental Health and Justice in the Rochester Community Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Lechase Room 184 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: PHLT 238-1 (P), PSCI 216-1
Instructors: Katrina Korfmacher
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: This course takes a systems-change approach to problems of environmental health and justice. It will provide students with a methodological, conceptual, and experiential foundation in addressing problems through policies, partnerships, and community engagement. We will closely examine several timely local issues such as subsistence fishing, climate adaptation, equitable transportation, and housing. For each major topic, students will engage in background research, practice diverse data collection strategies, interact with relevant community groups, and gain experience integrating multidisciplinary information. Students will also undertake a semester-long community engaged project to address an environmental justice issue of concern to a local organization. 

NOTE: This is a community-engaged class and will involve significant blocks of time in field work, trips, and guest speakers. To accommodate this, there is an extended "lab" session; this session is required and will take place on Thursday from 3:25 - 4:40. This class is designated as part of the Certificate of Achievement in Community-Engaged Learning.

PRE-REQUISITES: PH 101, PH 116, or PH 102; or by permission of instructor for students with significant policy, community change, or environmental management background.
Offered: Fall
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PHLT 265W-1 Global Health Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Gavett Hall Room 312 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ANTH 265-1, PHLT 265W-1 (P)
Instructors: Nancy Chin
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course uses social theories to frame current issues in global health. Readings include critiques of development and ethnographic methods. Pre-requisite: PHLT 101 or ANTH 101.
Offered: Spring
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PHLT 300W-1 Seminar on Bioethics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1200 1440 Lattimore Room 531 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: PHIL 311-1, PHLT 300W-1 (P)
Instructors: Richard Dees
Description: Intended as a capstone experience, this course provides a setting in which students bring together what they have learned in the major and hone their skills by exploring in-depth two or three central issues in bioethics of particular interest to the participants.
Offered: Spring
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PHLT 374-1 Pandemics, Politics and Policies Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Rush Rhees Library Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
19
Co-Located: HIST 374W-1 (P), HIST 474-1, PHLT 374-1, PSCI 316W-1
Instructors: Mical Raz
Restrictions: Not open to First Year and Sophomore - AS&E
Description: In this advanced seminar, students will learn about prior epidemics and pandemics primarily in the United States, and asses the policy responses to these events. They will learn about a number of key case studies in the history of pandemic response, and examine the political history of these responses. They will critically examine primary sources to shed light on contemporary understandings of pandemics and the responses to them, and how these responses were negotiated. With this knowledge and analysis, students will learn to think critically about current pandemics and tie them to a longer history of pandemic responses.  
Offered: Spring
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PHLT 390-11 Supervised Teaching - PHLT 234W Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
2
Instructors: Molly McNulty
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring
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PHLT 390-3 Supervised Teaching - PHLT 397W Spring 2023 4.0 Open
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Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
1
Instructors: Ann Marie White
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring
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PHLT 390-4 Supervised Teaching - PHLT 101 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Courtney Jones
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring
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PHLT 390-6 Supervised Teaching - PHLT 102 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
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Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Christopher Seplaki
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring
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PHLT 390-7 Supervised Teaching - PHLT 215W Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
6
Instructors: Nancy Chin
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring
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PHLT 390-8 Supervised Teaching - PHLT 230 Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
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Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
1
Instructors: Molly McNulty
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring
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PHLT 390-9 Supervised Teaching - PHLT 265W Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
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Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
6
Instructors: Nancy Chin
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring
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PHLT 393-1 Public Health Research Honors Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
1
Instructors: Molly McNulty
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring
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PHLT 393-2 Public Health Research Honors Spring 2023 3.0 Closed
Schedule:
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Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
1
Instructors: Richard Dees
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring
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PHLT 393-3 Public Health Research Honors Spring 2023 3.0 Open
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Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
1
Instructors: Timothy Dye
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring
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PHLT 393-4 Public Health Research Honors Spring 2023 3.0 Closed
Schedule:
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Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
1
Instructors: Scott McIntosh
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring
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PHLT 393-5 Public Health Research Honors Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Edwin VanWijngaarden
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring
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PHLT 393-6 Public Health Research Honors Spring 2023 1.0 Open
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Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Katrina Korfmacher
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring
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PHLT 397W-1 Community Engaged Internship Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1525 1640 Lattimore Room 431 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Ann Marie White
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This is a mentored field experience applying principles of community engaged practice in real world settings. Students work 8 hours/week with a community agency and attend a weekly 75-mintue on-campus seminar for discussion. THIS COURSE REQUIRES A SPECIAL APPLICATION. Course open to: juniors, seniors, Take Five, and e5 students, majoring in one of the five public health-related majors. Students must have completed: PHLT 101, PHLT 102, and PHLT 103.
Offered: Fall Spring
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PHLT 399-1 Washington Semester Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Molly McNulty
Description: This opportunity is offered in conjunction with The Washington Center. For more information about the program and the application process, please visit the Greene Center.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Philosophy
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
PHIL 101-1 Intro to Philosophy Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Lattimore Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
85 		Capacity     
85
Instructors: Paul Audi
Description: Philosophers ask questions about a vast variety of topics, including what really exists, what we can know, how we should live, how we should treat each other, whether there is a God or a life after this one, how can we have free choices, and what it means to be a human with a particular identity.  Philosophers seek answers to such questions by thinking carefully about them, using experience, reason and argumentation, and taking into account contributions of the sciences, literature, and other fields. This course will introduce students to some of the most interesting and exciting parts of philosophy.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 102-1 Ethics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
74 		Capacity     
75
Instructors: Michael Carrick
Description: This course is an introduction to basic issues in the philosophical investigation of ethics. Topics include general theories of the nature of right and wrong and theories of the functions of ethical language. Classes are in the lecture and question format. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 103-1 Contemporary Moral Problems Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Meliora Room 221 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
85 		Capacity     
86
Co-Located: EHUM 103-1, PHIL 103-1 (P), SUST 114-1
Instructors: William FitzPatrick
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: An introduction to moral philosophy as applied to current topics. Some questions to be explored: What sorts of socioeconomic principles are morally justifiable? Does the history of racial injustice in the U.S. create a moral demand for reparations, and if so, what is the best argument for this? What is the relation, if any, between morality and religion? Do animals have moral rights? How should we understand the meaning and value of human life and death? Can abortion sometimes be justified, and if so, how? Is it okay to destroy embryos for stem cell research? Is active euthanasia ever permissible? Is capital punishment justifiable in principle? In practice? Is torture morally permissible in the fight against terrorism? How far does our moral duty to aid distant strangers extend? We will also explore related general questions: Is it always possible for a good enough end to justify bad means? Are there objective facts about right or wrong, or is morality ultimately relative to cultures or times? Are there situations in which every available action is wrong? Can we be morally assessed even for some things that are largely a matter of luck?
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 110-1 Introductory Logic Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
59 		Capacity     
80
Instructors: Mark Povich
Description: Symbolic logic through first-order quantification theory. Skill in deductive inference is strengthened through construction of proofs and other methods of a rigorously defined artificial language.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 120-1 Ethics of Technology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Morey Room 502 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
32 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: EAS 145-1, PHIL 120-1 (P)
Instructors: Randall Curren
Description: Codes of ethics developed by the engineering profession refer to integrity, competence, leadership, commitment to enhancing the quality of life in the society and across the world, and protecting the natural and built environment. In this course we will explore these dimensions of professionalism and acquire a toolkit for principled decision-making, communication, and professional flourishing. We will focus on the value judgments that are integral to the engineering design process, while also examining the ways in which institutional settings influence decision-making. The pedagogy, written work, and evaluation in this course will be strongly oriented to case-based analysis.
Offered: Fall Spring
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PHIL 201-1 History of Ancient Philosophy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Morey Room 501 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
39 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: CLST 203-1, PHIL 201-1 (P)
Instructors: Lawrence Philpot
Description: Survey of the origins of Western philosophy, from the Presocratics through Hellenistic philosophy six centuries later. The great philosophers of the Classical period, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, are studied in detail.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 215-1 Intermediate Logic Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Harkness Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: MATH 225-1, PHIL 215-1 (P), PHIL 415-1
Instructors: Paul Audi
Description: PREREQUISITE: One previous Philosophy course required

This course is an introduction to metalogic. Topics covered include basic elements of set theory, and the model-theoretic treatment of sentential and first-order logic (completeness, compactness, and Lwenheim-Skolem theorems).
Offered: Fall
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PHIL 220-1 Recent Ethical Theory Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Lattimore Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
22 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: PHIL 220-1 (P), PHIL 420-1
Instructors: Earl Conee
Description: PREREQUISITE: One previous Philosophy course required

In this course we investigate critically three approaches to morality: consequentialism, virtue theory, and Kantian ethics.  We also look into philosophical work on the questions of whether there are insoluble moral dilemmas and whether moral evaluations are necessitated by some empirical facts.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 225-1 Ethical Decisions in Medicine Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Lattimore Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
121 		Capacity     
122
Co-Located: PHIL 225-1 (P), PHIL 225W-1
Instructors: William FitzPatrick
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: PREREQUISITE: One previous Philosophy course required.

Philosophical analysis of ethical issues in medicine and biotechnology, such as problems arising in connection with the relations between physicians and patients, the challenges of cultural diversity, practices surrounding human and animal research, decisions about end of life care, embryonic stem cell research, genetic engineering, biotechnological human enhancement, and social justice in relation to health-care policy. Papers will focus on analyses grounded in case studies.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 225W-1 Ethical Decisions in Medicine Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Lattimore Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: PHIL 225-1 (P), PHIL 225W-1
Instructors: William FitzPatrick
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Fulfills upper level writing requirement for the major.

Philosophical analysis of ethical issues in medicine and biotechnology, such as problems arising in connection with the relations between physicians and patients, the challenges of cultural diversity, practices surrounding human and animal research, decisions about end of life care, embryonic stem cell research, genetic engineering, biotechnological human enhancement, and social justice in relation to health-care policy. Papers will focus on analyses grounded in case studies.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 226-1 Philosophy of Law Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Bausch & Lomb Room 106 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
45 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: PHIL 226-1 (P), PHIL 226W-1, PHIL 426-1
Instructors: James Otis
Description: PREREQUISITE: One Previous Philosophy course required

In recent years, the U.S. legal system has been beset by claims of overcriminalization, racially discriminatory enforcement, and inadequate or unequal protection of individual civil rights. What should we make of these claims, and what, if anything, would be implied by their truth? In seeking to answer these questions, this course will examine the nature of the law and its enforcement. We will begin by discussing the issue of criminalization and whether the expansion of the criminal law is or is not problematic. From there, we will turn to the foundational questions of what, precisely, the law is, and what its connection to morality is or should be. Are we obligated to obey the law, and if so, why? Finally, we will ask whether it is possible for the law to remain neutral with regards to morality and politics, and whether the supposed “neutrality” of the law may itself be an instrument of oppression. If the legal system lacks the kind of neutrality that many legal theorists claim for it, what (if anything) does that license us (as citizens) to do? (Offered every spring)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 226W-1 Philosophy of Law Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Bausch & Lomb Room 106 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
45 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: PHIL 226-1 (P), PHIL 226W-1, PHIL 426-1
Instructors: James Otis
Description: In recent years, the U.S. legal system has been beset by claims of overcriminalization, racially discriminatory enforcement, and inadequate or unequal protection of individual civil rights. What should we make of these claims, and what, if anything, would be implied by their truth? In seeking to answer these questions, this course will examine the nature of the law and its enforcement. We will begin by discussing the issue of criminalization and whether the expansion of the criminal law is or is not problematic. From there, we will turn to the foundational questions of what, precisely, the law is, and what its connection to morality is or should be. Are we obligated to obey the law, and if so, why? Finally, we will ask whether it is possible for the law to remain neutral with regards to morality and politics, and whether the supposed “neutrality” of the law may itself be an instrument of oppression. If the legal system lacks the kind of neutrality that many legal theorists claim for it, what (if anything) does that license us (as citizens) to do? (Offered every spring)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 235-1 Data, Algorithms, Justice Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Hylan Building Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
38 		Capacity     
50
Co-Located: PHIL 235-1 (P), PHIL 235W-1, PHIL 435-1
Instructors: Jonathan Herington
Description: PREREQUISITE: One Previous Philosophy course required

This course focuses on a number of questions that arise in the design, development and deployment of machine learning algorithms. Topics include: Bias in algorithms (e.g., how should we measure unfairness in algorithms that determine who gets bail, parole, a job, or a loan? What about bias in health analytics?) Values disagreement and algorithms (e.g., how should self-driving cars or diagnostic algorithms make decisions, given that we disagree about the good?) Algorithms, social media, and public life (e.g., what is the impact of social media algorithms on public discourse and the future of democracy?) Algorithms and the future of work (e.g., how should we structure our society when many basic tasks will be performed by machines? How should we distribute the benefits of machine productivity?)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 235W-1 Data, Algorithms, Justice Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Hylan Building Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
38 		Capacity     
50
Co-Located: PHIL 235-1 (P), PHIL 235W-1, PHIL 435-1
Instructors: Jonathan Herington
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course focuses on a number of questions that arise in the design, development and deployment of machine learning algorithms. Topics include: Bias in algorithms (e.g., how should we measure unfairness in algorithms that determine who gets bail, parole, a job, or a loan? What about bias in health analytics?) Values disagreement and algorithms (e.g., how should self-driving cars or diagnostic algorithms make decisions, given that we disagree about the good?) Algorithms, social media, and public life (e.g., what is the impact of social media algorithms on public discourse and the future of democracy?) Algorithms and the future of work (e.g., how should we structure our society when many basic tasks will be performed by machines? How should we distribute the benefits of machine productivity?) This course fulfills the upper level writing requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 250-1 Philosophy of Action Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: PHIL 250-1 (P), PHIL 250W-1, PHIL 450-1
Instructors: Lawrence Philpot
Description: PREREQUISITE:  One previous Philosophy course required

An avalanche barrels down a mountainside; a demolition expert lights the dynamite: In both cases a building is destroyed; but in one case, this destruction merely happens, and in the other, it is done—an action is performed. In this course we'll try to understand what's distinctive of action, especially human action or agency. We'll examine concepts such as intention, reason for action, desire, practical knowledge, and free will. Topics may include: What kind of aiming, directedness, or intention is required for action? How are actions motivated? What is the relationship between practical knowledge and moral action? How can we explain failures of agency, like weakness of will? What is it to act freely?
Offered: Fall
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PHIL 250W-1 Philosophy of Action Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: PHIL 250-1 (P), PHIL 250W-1, PHIL 450-1
Instructors: Lawrence Philpot
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: PREREQUISITE:  One previous Philosophy course required

An avalanche barrels down a mountainside; a demolition expert lights the dynamite: In both cases a building is destroyed; but in one case, this destruction merely happens, and in the other, it is done—an action is performed. In this course we'll try to understand what's distinctive of action, especially human action or agency. We'll examine concepts such as intention, reason for action, desire, practical knowledge, and free will. Topics may include: What kind of aiming, directedness, or intention is required for action? How are actions motivated? What is the relationship between practical knowledge and moral action? How can we explain failures of agency, like weakness of will? What is it to act freely?
Offered: Spring
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PHIL 252-1 Philosophy of Science Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
45 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: PHIL 252-1 (P), PHIL 252W-1, PHIL 452-1
Instructors: Mark Povich
Description: PREREQUISITE: One previous Philosophy course required

Survey of primarily metaphysical questions about science: Must the entities posited by a scientific theory exist for it to be successful? Do laws of nature govern the world or simply articulate patterns? How are lower and higher level scientific theories related to one another? Is scientific explanation primarily concerned with laws, with causes, or with something else?
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 252W-1 Philosophy of Science Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
45 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: PHIL 252-1 (P), PHIL 252W-1, PHIL 452-1
Instructors: Mark Povich
Description: PREREQUISITE: One previous Philosophy course required

Survey of primarily metaphysical questions about science: Must the entities posited by a scientific theory exist for it to be successful? Do laws of nature govern the world or simply articulate patterns? How are lower and higher level scientific theories related to one another? Is scientific explanation primarily concerned with laws, with causes, or with something else?

Fulfills upper level writing requirement for the major.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 311-1 Seminar in Bioethics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1200 1440 Lattimore Room 531 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: PHIL 311-1, PHLT 300W-1 (P)
Instructors: Richard Dees
Description: Seminar on a limited number of changing topics in biomedical ethics.

PREREQUISITE: One previous Philosophy course required
Offered: Spring
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PHIL 321-1 Death Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Lattimore Room 531 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Richard Dees
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Death poses a number of philosophical puzzles which we will examine in this class: What does it mean to die? Am I harmed when I die? I don’t experience my death or being dead, so why would it be bad for me? Is it appropriate, then, to fear my death? Is it wrong to kill myself? Can I be harmed after I die? If dying is bad, would it be better if I never died, if I lived forever? Does the fact of that we will die change the way we should live? Does death shape the meaning of our lives? (Offered every other spring, in odd numbered years)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 393-1 Seminar for Majors Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Meliora Room 224 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Earl Conee
Description:

Capstone seminar for majors. Explores a limited number of philosophical topics in depth, and serves as the main writing course for the major. This year, the seminar will focus on two topics that we will select together.  Limited to students with concentrations and majors in philosophy.
Offered: Fall Spring
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PHIL 396-1 Honors Tutorial Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: William FitzPatrick
Description: Those wishing to pursue an Honors thesis track must first confirm with the Undergraduate Adviser that they meet the eligibility requirements, discuss how the other Honors requirements will be met, and secure the agreement of a Philosophy faculty member to serve as the thesis adviser. Then, in consultation with the thesis adviser (typically at the end of junior year), they will assemble a list of relevant texts in the area of thesis research and begin reading through the materials in the summer before senior year. In fall of senior year, they will enroll in PHIL 396, for which they will meet regularly with the adviser throughout the semester to discuss the texts and to hone the thesis topic and outline. (Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 397-1 Special Projects Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: William FitzPatrick
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 398-1 Special Topics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: William FitzPatrick
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 399-1 Honors Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: William FitzPatrick
Description: After taking PHIL 396 to conduct research on the thesis topic, Honors thesis students enroll in PHIL 399 to continue the project, completing the writing of the thesis and then taking an oral examination (conducted by the thesis adviser and a second faculty reader) at least two weeks after submission of the final version of the thesis. (Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru

https://secure1.rochester.edu/registrar/forms/independent-study-form.php
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 399-2 Honors Thesis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Richard Dees; Rosa Terlazzo
Description: After taking PHIL 396 to conduct research on the thesis topic, Honors thesis students enroll in PHIL 399 to continue the project, completing the writing of the thesis and then taking an oral examination (conducted by the thesis adviser and a second faculty reader) at least two weeks after submission of the final version of the thesis. (Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru

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Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 415-1 Intermediate Logic Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Harkness Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: MATH 225-1, PHIL 215-1 (P), PHIL 415-1
Instructors: Paul Audi
Description: Whereas in a standard introductory logic course, students learn how to do proofs within a formal logical system, in this course, students learn how to do proofs about formal logical systems. The main goal is to learn how to prove the soundness and completeness of different sorts of logical systems. Along the way, other important results in Proof Theory and Model Theory are considered.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 420-1 Recent Ethical Theory Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Lattimore Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
22 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: PHIL 220-1 (P), PHIL 420-1
Instructors: Earl Conee
Description: In this course we investigate critically three approaches to morality: consequentialism, virtue theory, and Kantian ethics.  We also look into philosophical work on the questions of whether there are insoluble moral dilemmas and whether moral evaluations are necessitated by some empirical facts.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 426-1 Philosophy of Law Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Bausch & Lomb Room 106 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
45 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: PHIL 226-1 (P), PHIL 226W-1, PHIL 426-1
Instructors: James Otis
Description: In recent years, the U.S. legal system has been beset by claims of overcriminalization, racially discriminatory enforcement, and inadequate or unequal protection of individual civil rights. What should we make of these claims, and what, if anything, would be implied by their truth? In seeking to answer these questions, this course will examine the nature of the law and its enforcement. We will begin by discussing the issue of criminalization and whether the expansion of the criminal law is or is not problematic. From there, we will turn to the foundational questions of what, precisely, the law is, and what its connection to morality is or should be. Are we obligated to obey the law, and if so, why? Finally, we will ask whether it is possible for the law to remain neutral with regards to morality and politics, and whether the supposed “neutrality” of the law may itself be an instrument of oppression. If the legal system lacks the kind of neutrality that many legal theorists claim for it, what (if anything) does that license us (as citizens) to do? (Offered every spring)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 435-1 Data, Algorithms, Justice Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Hylan Building Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
38 		Capacity     
50
Co-Located: PHIL 235-1 (P), PHIL 235W-1, PHIL 435-1
Instructors: Jonathan Herington
Description: This course focuses on a number of questions that arise in the design, development and deployment of machine learning algorithms. Topics include: Bias in algorithms (e.g., how should we measure unfairness in algorithms that determine who gets bail, parole, a job, or a loan? What about bias in health analytics?) Values disagreement and algorithms (e.g., how should self-driving cars or diagnostic algorithms make decisions, given that we disagree about the good?) Algorithms, social media, and public life (e.g., what is the impact of social media algorithms on public discourse and the future of democracy?) Algorithms and the future of work (e.g., how should we structure our society when many basic tasks will be performed by machines? How should we distribute the benefits of machine productivity?)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 450-1 Philosophy of Action Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: PHIL 250-1 (P), PHIL 250W-1, PHIL 450-1
Instructors: Lawrence Philpot
Description: An avalanche barrels down a mountainside; a demolition expert lights the dynamite: In both cases a building is destroyed; but in one case, this destruction merely happens, and in the other, it is done—an action is performed. In this course we'll try to understand what's distinctive of action, especially human action or agency. We'll examine concepts such as intention, reason for action, desire, practical knowledge, and free will. Topics may include: What kind of aiming, directedness, or intention is required for action? How are actions motivated? What is the relationship between practical knowledge and moral action? How can we explain failures of agency, like weakness of will? What is it to act freely?
Offered: Spring
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PHIL 452-1 Philosophy of Science Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
45 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: PHIL 252-1 (P), PHIL 252W-1, PHIL 452-1
Instructors: Mark Povich
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 491-1 Master's Readings in PHL Spring 2023 5.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Paul Audi
Description: Independent study
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 491-2 Master's Readings in PHL Spring 2023 5.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Paul Audi
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 491-3 Master's Readings in PHL Spring 2023 5.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Alison Peterman
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 516-1 Sel Top PHL of Language Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1400 1640 Lattimore Room 531 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Jens Kipper
Description: This seminar is devoted to current issues in philosophy of language. Recent topics have included possible worlds, relativism, truth, propositions, deontic and epistemic modality.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 517-1 Sel Top in Ethics: Meaning, Motivation and the Good Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Lattimore Room 531 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Randall Curren
Description: Critical exploration of work in contemporary metaethics and normative ethical theory and its applications.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 560-1 Writing Seminar Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Paul Audi
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Study of recent articles; writing short commentaries, replies, criticisms. Covers various topics under guidance of several faculty members.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 560-2 Philosophical Writing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Earl Conee
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Study of recent articles; writing short commentaries, replies, criticisms. Covers various topics under guidance of several faculty members.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 560-3 Philosophical Writing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Alison Peterman
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Study of recent articles; writing short commentaries, replies, criticisms. Covers various topics under guidance of several faculty members.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 560-4 Philosophical Writing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Richard Feldman
Description: Study of recent articles; writing short commentaries, replies, criticisms. Covers various topics under guidance of several faculty members.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHIL 581-1 Supervise Instruct:Lec to Un Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Randall Curren
Description: Continuation of PHL 580, with practice lecturing to the undergraduate classes.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Physics
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
PHYS 113-01 General Physics I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Hoyt Hall Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
85 		Capacity     
150
Instructors: Sheth Nyibule
Description: First semester of a two-course sequence suitable for students in the life sciences. Newtonian particle mechanics, including Newton's laws and their applications to straight-line and circular motions, energy; linear momentum, angular momentum; and harmonic motion; sound, wave properties, and fluid dynamics. Calculus used as needed. In addition to Two 75-minute lectures, One three-hour laboratory every other week and one workshop per week is required. Laboratory and workshop registration is done at the time of the course registration. Students should register for the PHYS 081 lab. This course is offered in the Fall, Spring and Summer Session I (A-6).

Prerequisites: MTH 141 or 161 (MTH 161 may be taken concurrently)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHYS 113P-01 Gen Physics I (Self-Paced) Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Sheth Nyibule
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: First semester of a two-course sequence suitable for students in the life sciences. Newtonian particle mechanics, including Newton's laws and their applications to straight-line and circular motions, energy; linear momentum, angular momentum; and harmonic motion; Kepler's laws; planetary and satellite motions. Calculus used as needed. In addition to Two 75-minute lectures, One three-hour laboratory every other week and one work/shop/recitation per week is required. Laboratory and workshop registration is done at the time of the course registration. Students should register for the PHYS 081 lab. This course is offered in the Fall, Spring and Summer Session I (A-6).

Prerequisites: MATH 141 or 161 (MATH 161 may be taken concurrently)
Offered: Spring Summer
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PHYS 114-01 General Physics II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Hoyt Hall Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
169 		Capacity     
200
Instructors: Pierre Gourdain
Description: Second course of a two-semester sequence suitable for students in the life science. Electricity and magnetism, optics, electromagnetic waves; modern physics (introduction to relativity, quantum physics, etc.). In addition to the Two 75-minute lectures each week, One workshop/recitation each week and One approximately three-hour laboratory every other week is required. Laboratory and workshop registration is done at the time of the course registration. Students should register for the PHYS 084 lab.

Prerequisites: PHY 113; MTH 143 or MTH 162 (MTH 162 may be taken concurrently).

This course is offered in both the Spring, Summer Session II (B-6).For Workshop Questions Email: Linda Cassidy - lcassidy@pas.rochester.eduFor Lab Questions Email: Lysa Wade - lwade3@ur.rochester.edu
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHYS 121-01 Mechanics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Hoyt Hall Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
161 		Capacity     
250
Instructors: Sheth Nyibule
Description: Course will make extensive use of geometry, algebra and trigonometry and simple integration and differentiation. Prior knowledge of introductory calculus (simple integration and differentiation) is required. First semester of a three-course sequence for students planning to major in physics, other physical sciences, and engineering. Motion in one and two dimensions; Newton's laws; work and energy; conservation of energy; systems of particles; rotations; oscillations; gravity; thermodynamics. In addition to Two 75-minute lectures each week, One workshop each week and One three-hour laboratory every other week is required. Laboratory and workshop registration is done at the same time as the course registration. Students should register for the PHYS 081 lab. This course is offered in Spring and Summer session (A-6).

Prerequisites: PHY 099; MTH 161 and MTH 162 (MTH 162 may be taken concurrently). EAS 101, 102, 103, 104,105 or 108 can be accepted in place of PHY 099.
Offered: Spring Summer
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PHYS 121P-01 Mechanics (Self-Paced) Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
42 		Capacity     
139
Instructors: Arie Bodek
Description: Course will make extensive use of geometry, algebra and trigonometry and simple integration and differentiation. Prior knowledge of introductory calculus (simple integration and differentiation) is required. First semester of a three-course sequence for students planning to major in physics, other physical sciences, and engineering. Motion in one and two dimensions; Newton's laws; work and energy; conservation of energy; systems of particles; rotations; oscillations; gravity; thermodynamics. Lectures are video-taped and accessed through Blackboard. Laboratory registration is done at the same time as the course registration. Students should register for the PHYS 081 lab.

Prerequisites: PHY 099; MTH 161 and MTH 162 (MTH 162 may be taken concurrently). EAS 101, 102, 103, 104,105 or 108 can be accepted in place of PHY 099.

For a description of the differences between PHY 121/122 and the mastery/self-paced PHY 121P/122P, see: http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~dmw/MSP/MSP_Physics.pdf
Offered: Spring Summer
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PHYS 123-01 Waves and Modern Physics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Hoyt Hall Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
73 		Capacity     
300
Instructors: Taco Visser
Description: Third semester of a three-course sequence for students planning to majoring in physics, other physical sciences and engineering. Wave motion, physical optics, special relativity, photoelectric effect, Compton effect, X-rays, wave properties of particles. Schrdinger's equation applied to a particle in a box, penetration of a barrier, the hydrogen atom, the harmonic oscillator, the uncertainty principle, Rutherford scattering, the time-dependent Schrdinger equation and radioactive transitions, many electron atoms and molecules, statistical mechanics and selected topics in solid state physics, nuclear physics and particle physics. In addition to Two 75-minutes lectures each week, One workshop each week and One three-hour laboratory every other week is required. Laboratory and workshop registration is at the same time as the course registration. Students should register for the PHYS 083 lab. Offered in the Spring. Prerequisites: PHY 122; MTH 163 or MTH 165 (MTH 165 may be taken concurrently)
Offered: Spring
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PHYS 143-01 20th Century Physics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Hoyt Hall Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
56 		Capacity     
70
Instructors: Joseph Eberly
Restrictions: Open to First Year Students Only AS&E
Description: Second semester of a three-course honors sequence, recommended for prospective departmental concentrators and other science or engineering students with a strong interest in physics or mathematics. Topics are the same as PHY 123 but in greater depth. Introductory examinations of Bohr's atomic model; Broglie waves; momentum and energy quantization; Heisenberg's uncertainty relation; Schrodinger's cat; electron spin; photon interference, and Bell's inequalities; selected applications to solid-state, nuclear, particle, and astrophysics. The laboratories and workshop registration is required at the same time as the course registration. Textbooks: (1) - 'SIX IDEAS THAT SHAPED PHYSICS - UNIT Q: Particles Behave Like Waves' (*please note that the 2nd edition of this book is recommended vs the newer 3rd edition), (2) - 'Quantum Theory - a Graphic Guide' MCEvoy and Zarate (3) - 'Quantum Physics - Illusion or Reality' (Cambridge Univ. Press) Alistaire Rae

Prerequisites: PHY 141 or permission of the instructor; MTH 162 (MTH 162 may be taken concurrently)
Offered: Spring
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PHYS 183-01 Waves & Modern Physics Lab Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Arie Bodek
Description: Laboratory experiments in modern physics: velocity of sound; geometrical optics and imaging; the wave nature of light and microwaves; the spectrum of atomic hydrogen; and the Frank Hertz experiment. This Laboratory uses the P/F University grading system.
Offered: Spring
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PHYS 218-01 E & M II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Bausch & Lomb Room 270 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
22 		Capacity     
35
Instructors: Kevin McFarland-Porter
Description: Electromagnetic induction; displacement current; Maxwell's equations; the wave equation; plane electromagnetic waves; Poynting vector; reflection and refraction; radiation; waveguides; transmission lines; propagation of light; radiation by charged particles; relativistic formulation of Maxwell's equations.

Prerequisites: PHY 217
Offered: Spring
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PHYS 227-01 Thermo & Stat Mechanics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Bausch & Lomb Room 106 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
36
Instructors: Gourab Ghoshal
Description: Multiplicity of physical states, equilibrium entropy and temperature, Boltzmann factor and partition function, statistical approach to free energy, chemical potential, distribution functions for ideal classical and quantum gases. Applications to chemical reactions, thermal engines, equations of state and phase transitions, applications.

Prerequisites: PHY 237; MTH 281 (MTH 281 may be taken concurrently)
Offered: Spring
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PHYS 233-1 Musical Acoustics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Computer Studies Room 601 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: AME 233-1 (P), ECE 233-1, ECE 433-1, PHYS 233-1, TEE 433-1
Instructors: Michael Heilemann
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Spring
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PHYS 237-01 Quantum Mechanics of Physical Systems Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Gavett Hall Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
46 		Capacity     
60
Instructors: Nicholas Bigelow
Description: Introduction to quantum mechanics with emphasis on applications to physical systems. Includes Schroedinger theory; solutions to the one-dimentional Schroedinger equation; the hydrogen atom; and selected applications from atomic and molecular physics; quantum statistics; lasers; solids; nuclei; and elementary particles.

Prerequisites: PHY 122/142; PHY 123/143; MTH 165/174 (MTH 164/174 may be taken concurrently).
Offered: Spring
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PHYS 245W-01 Advanced Nuclear Science Education Lab Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1640 Bausch & Lomb Room 407 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
7
Co-Located: CHEM 244W-1, CHEM 444-1, PHYS 245W-01 (P), PHYS 445-1
Instructors: Frank Wolfs
Description: The students enrolled in ANSEL will develop a sophisticated understanding of our terrestrial radiation environment and of some of the important applications of nuclear science and technology. They will acquire practical skills in the routine use of radiation detectors, monitors, and electronics, and develop the ability to assess radiation threats and prospects of their abatement. The four in-depth ANSEL experiments are designed to help recreate a type of well-rounded, competent experimental nuclear scientist who is able to analyze an experimental problem, to select, design, and set up appropriate nuclear instrumentation, and to conduct required measurements. The laboratory sessions will meet twice a week for 2 hours and 40 minutes. The students are expected to write detailed lab reports on their work, and give a presentation on of their experiments at the end of the semester.In addition to the laboratory component of ANSEL students will attend a weekly lecture (1 hour and 15 minutes per week).

Prerequisites: PHY 123/143; not open to first-years and sophomores.
Offered: Spring
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PHYS 246-01 Quantum Theory Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Bausch & Lomb Room 270 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
29 		Capacity     
35
Instructors: John Nichol
Description: Formalism of quantum theory with more advanced applications than PHY 237. Includes postulates of Quantum Mechanics; function spaces, Hermitian operators, completeness of basis sets; superposition, compatible observables, conservation theorems; operations in abstract vector space, spin and angular momentum matrices; addition of angular momentum; perturbation theory, and simple scattering theory.

Prerequisites: PHY 237; MTH 281 (or close equivalent).
Offered: Spring
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PHYS 256-01 Computational Physics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Bausch & Lomb Room 407 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Yongli Gao
Description: Introduction of numerical and computational methods, with special emphasis on their utilities and applications in contemporary physics topics: Intro to programming language, numerical considerations, ordinary differential equations I & II, partial differential equations I & II, analysis of data, random numbers and evaluation, growth and fractal, Monte Carlo method.

Prerequisites: PHY 141-143 or PHY 121-123 (PHY 123/143 may be taken concurrently).
Offered: Spring
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PHYS 261-3 Interference and Diffraction Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Goergen Hall Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
42 		Capacity     
80
Co-Located: OPT 261-3 (P), PHYS 261-3
Instructors: Nick Vamivakas
Description: Complex representation of waves; propagation of waves, diffraction; scalar diffraction theory; Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction and application to measurement; partially coherent light; diffraction and image formation; optical transfer function; coherent optical systems, optical data processing, and holography (same as OPT 261).
Offered: Spring
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PHYS 265-01 Introduction to Quantum Computing and Quantum Information Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Meliora Room 224 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Alice Quillen
Description: The quantum mechanical nature and capabilities of a Qubit based quantum computer will be introduced and explored. Topics covered include: Two state quantum systems, qubits, as components of a quantum computer.  Quantum measurements.  Tensor products and entanglement.   Quantum gates and quantum circuits.  Quantum information and von-Neumann entropy. Density operators, partial traces, quantum channels and decoherence. Realizing logical operations and universality on a quantum computer. Black box problems, such as the Bernstein-Vazirani and Simon’s problems.  The quantum Fourier transform. Quantum algorithms such as Shor’s factoring algorithm. Types of quantum computing complexity. Quantum error correction.  Quantum search algorithms. Prospects for realizing quantum computing.

Prerequisites:  Modern physics including some quantum mechanics.  Linear algebra at the level of the Math 161-165 or the MATH 171-174 sequences.

Level: upper level for PHY/PAS majors.
Offered: Spring
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PHYS 371-1 Nanometrology Laboratory Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 800 930 Goergen Hall Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
8
Co-Located: OPT 254-1 (P), PHYS 371-1
Instructors: Svetlana Lukishova
Description: This advanced, 4-credit-hour laboratory class (in person) for juniors and seniors (sophomores should contact the instructor for permission) consists of three laboratory modules accompanied by lecture materials: Module 1. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM); Module 2. Atomic force microscopy; Module 3. Confocal fluorescence and optical microscopy. In addition to one 2 h lab per week, topics covered in two 1-1.5 h lab lectures per week include function and capabilities of the SEM and TEM, the principles of atomic force microscopy, confocal fluorescence microscopy of single nanoemitters, optical microscopy including high-resolution optical microscopy, and discussion of advances of nanoscience and nanotechnology.  The laboratory components will use the facilities of the University of Rochester Integrated Nanosystems Center and the Institute of Optics. Students are expected to have completed a sequence in introductory physics. Maximum 8 students can take this course. Grading will be based on three lab reports and three quizzes. The schedule of OPT 254/PHYS 371 will be selected before starting this class for the days and time convenient to every student.   

Please, contact Prof. Svetlana Lukishova (lukishov@optics.rochester.edu) for all questions. This is a required class for the University of Rochester undergraduate program on the Certificate for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering. If you are interested in the Certificate program, please contact Prof. Lukishova.

Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHYS 390A-01 Supervised Teaching-PAS Department Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
32 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Steven Manly
Description: This course is designed for an experienced undergraduate planning to be a Workshop Leader, Laboratory or Recitation Teaching Intern (TI), Students spend the semester teaching one workshop, laboratory or recitation section during the Fall/Spring semester introductory physics courses. This course may be taken more than once.
Offered: Fall Spring
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PHYS 393W-02 Senior Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Segev BenZvi
Description: Completion of an independent research project under the direction of a faculty member of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. This course includes a writing component and can be used to satisfy part of the upper-level writing requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHYS 393W-03 Senior Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
5
Instructors: Frank Wolfs
Description: Completion of an independent research project under the direction of a faculty member of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. This course includes a writing component and can be used to satisfy part of the upper-level writing requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHYS 403-01 Modern Statistics & Exploration Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Bausch & Lomb Room 106 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Segev BenZvi
Description: Review the fundamentals of probability and statistics and learn to apply them in commonly encountered practical data analysis problems, including parameter estimation, hypothesis testing, regression, simulation, and advanced error analysis (both statistical and systematic). This course will have theoretical and practical components. Once the theoretical concepts are covered, the emphasis will be to apply them to actual calculations with data. Students will learn to use a software package employed in the manipulation and analysis of large data sets, and they will write their own computer programs to carry out calculations using supplied data sets.
Offered: Spring
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PHYS 408-01 Quantum Mechanics II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Sarada Rajeev
Description: Symmetries including parity, lattice translations, and time reversal. Stationary-state and time-dependent perturbation theory, Stark and Zeeman effects, fine structure, transition probabilities. Scattering theory with applications. Elementary QED, multipole and plane-wave expansions, properties of the photon. The Dirac equation and elementary mass renormalization.
Offered: Spring
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PHYS 418-2 Statistical Mechanics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Bausch & Lomb Room 269 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: MSC 418-1, PHYS 418-2 (P)
Instructors: Stephen Teitel
Description: Review of thermodynamics; general principles of statistical mechanics; micro-canonical, canonical, and grand canonical ensembles; ideal quantum gases; applications to magnetic phenomena, heat capacities, black-body radiation; introduction to phase transitions. (Co-located with MSC418).

Prerequisites: PHY 227 or equivalent; PHY 407, PHY 408 concurrently
Offered: Spring
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PHYS 435-1 Principles of Lasers Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
34 		Capacity     
34
Co-Located: ME 465-1, MSC 465-1, OPT 465-1 (P), PHYS 435-1, TEO 465-1
Instructors: Pablo Postigo Resa
Description: This course provides an up-to-date knowledge of modern laser systems. Topics covered include quantum mechanical treatments to two-level atomic systems, optical gain, homogenous and inhomogenous broadening, laser resonators and their modes, Gaussian beams, cavity design, pumping schemes, rate equations, Q switching, mode-locking, various gas, liquid, and solid-state lasers.
Offered: Spring
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PHYS 445-1 The Adv Nuclear Sci Edu Lab Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1640 Bausch & Lomb Room 407 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
6
Co-Located: CHEM 244W-1, CHEM 444-1, PHYS 245W-01 (P), PHYS 445-1
Instructors: Frank Wolfs
Description: The students enrolled in ANSEL will develop a sophisticated understanding of our terrestrial radiation environment and of some of the important applications of nuclear science and technology. They will acquire practical skills in the routine use of radiation detectors, monitors, and electronics, and develop the ability to assess radiation threats and prospects of their abatement. The four in-depth ANSEL experiments are designed to help recreate a type of well-rounded, competent experimental nuclear scientist who is able to analyze an experimental problem, to select, design, and set up appropriate nuclear instrumentation, and to conduct required measurements. The laboratory sessions will meet twice a week for 2 hours and 40 minutes. The students are expected to write detailed lab reports on their work, and give a presentation on of their experiments at the end of the semester.In addition to the laboratory component of ANSEL students will attend a weekly lecture (1 hour and 15 minutes per week).
Offered: Spring
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PHYS 455-1 Plasma Physics II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Hylan Building Room 306 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: ME 435-1 (P), PHYS 455-1, TME 435-1
Instructors: Chuang Ren
Description: Introduction to kinetic theory and the moment equations. Vlasov equation, Landau damping. Waves in unmagnetized and magnetized plasmas. Collisional processes, Fokker-Planck equation. Two-stream instability, micro-instabilities. Nonlinear effects, fluctuations.
Offered: Spring
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PHYS 499-1 Supervised Teaching Asst II Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Steven Manly
Description: Continuation of PHY 498.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PHYS 532-01 Quantum Optics of the Electromagnetic Field Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Bausch & Lomb Room 208 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: OPT 552-01 (P), PHYS 532-01
Instructors: Gabriel Landi Landi
Description: Properties of the free quantized electromagnetic field, quantum theory of coherence, squeezed states, theory of photoelectric detection, correlation measurements, atomic resonance fluorescence, cooperative effects, quantum effects in nonlinear optics.

Prerequisite: PHYS 531 is recommended
Offered: Spring
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PHYS 552-1 Magnetohydrodynamics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Bausch & Lomb Room 269 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ME 532-1 (P), PHYS 552-1
Instructors: Fernando Garcia Rubio
Description: In this course, the student will be taught a general introduction to magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), with applications in engineering and high-energy density physics. Syllabus: Governing Equations. Electromagnetic induction; the magnetic Reynolds number; frozen-in magnetic fields and magnetic flux tubes. Hydromagnetic equilibria; force-free fields. Alfvén waves, magneto-acoustic waves. Discontinuities, magnetosonic shock waves. Viscous flows: Hartmann boundary layers. Stability of MHD flows: kink and sausage instabilities, magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Numerical MHD; Introduction to FLASH. Introduction to magnetized HEDP experiments. MHD in plasma physics, Extended MHD. 

Prerequirements: Fluid Mechanics, Electromagnetism. 
Offered: Spring
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PHYS 553-1 Laser Plasma Interactions Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Hylan Building Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ME 535-1 (P), PHYS 553-1
Instructors: Andrei Maximov
Description: Breakeven conditions for inertial confinement fusion. The coronal plasma. Inverse bremsstrahlung absorption. Resonance absorption. Parametric instabilities. Nonlinear plasma waves. Zakharov equations and collapse.
Offered: Fall Spring
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PHYS 597-1 Research Seminar Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1025 1140 Bausch & Lomb Room 106 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Steven Manly
Description: A (Fall) - Noncredit course given once per week, required of all first-year graduate students. The seminar consists of lectures and discussions on various aspects of being an effective teaching assistant, including interactions with undergraduate student body and cross-cultural issues.B (Spring) - Noncredit course given once per week required of all first-year graduate students. Members of the faculty discuss topics in their curent area of research interest.
Offered: Fall Spring
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PHYS 599-1 Pedagogy&Group Leadership Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Steven Manly
Description: This course is designed as a follow-up course for an experienced Workshop Leader, titled a lead Workshop Leader Teaching Assistant (TA). Typically, the TA attends the weekly Workshop Leader Training meeting that offers specialized support and training to develop leadership skills, to foster ongoing communication among faculty members and study group leaders, and to provide an environment for review of study group related issues. Students spend the semester teaching three to four workshops during the Spring semester introductory physics courses.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Modern Languages & Cultures - Polish
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
POLS 102-1 Elementary Polish II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lechase Room 184 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
11
Instructors: Malgorzata Wojciechowska
Description: Further introduction to the basic structures of the language and the vocabulary of everyday situations. The emphasis is on spoken Polish.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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POLS 201-1 Polish Review Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Frederick Douglass Room 308 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
6
Instructors: Malgorzata Wojciechowska
Description: The main objective of this course is to refine the participants' language skills and to familiarize them with the history, literature and culture of Poland. The course will require a working knowledge of Polish language necessary to discuss the content of the source materials. It will focus on group discussions based on source materials and papers prepared by it's participants.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Modern Languages & Cultures - Portuguese
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
PORT 102-1 Elementary Portuguese II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Frederick Douglass Room 302 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
14
Instructors: Teresa T.Valdez De F.Araujo
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Portuguese 102 is the second course of the elementary sequence. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION PORT 102-2. The general goal of the course is to develop basic language skills. During this course, students will:- Continue to build a vocabulary base in order to increase language skills;- Continue to use acquired vocabulary and grammatical structures;- Develop knowledge of the grammar structures associated with, but not limited to: talking about events in the present; talking about completed past events; expressing continuing events; describing daily routines and habits;- Listen to passages or conversations and discuss their content;- Read authentic texts and discuss their content;- Write paragraphs and short compositions using acquired vocabulary and grammatical structures;- Engage in and sustain face-to-face conversation with others about topics studied.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PORT 152-1 Intermediate Portuguese II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Frederick Douglass Room 302 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
14
Instructors: Teresa T.Valdez De F.Araujo
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Portuguese 152 is the second intermediate course in Portuguese. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION PORT 152-2. In POR 152, you will continue to expand your knowledge of Portuguese vocabulary and grammar structures while engaging in activities geared toward promoting intermediate proficiency in the language. It includes authentic texts readings and discussions, as well as writing and engage in and sustain face-to-face conversation with others about topics studied. As far as Portuguese is concerned, the terms lecture? and recitation? conventionally used to identify the blocks have a purely bureaucratic significance and do not reflect in any way the pedagogical approach of the course. Portuguese is the primary language of instruction.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Political Science
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
PSCI 105-1 Intro to U.S. Politics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Meliora Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
58 		Capacity     
120
Instructors: Dan Alexander
Description: Introduces students to the foundations of American government. Examines important political institutions and the linkage mechanisms that connect institutions, political actors, and ordinary American citizens.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 106-1 Intro to International Relations Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1525 1615 Lattimore Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
32 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: INTR 106-1 (P), PSCI 106-1
Instructors: Henk Goemans
Description: This course provides students with the background and conceptual tools they need to understand contemporary international relations. The course will introduce students to the wide range of issues that make up the study of international relations, including the workings of the state system, the causes of international conflict and violence, and international economic relations. Students will be introduced to the literature in a broad way, to make them familiar with the main theoretical traditions in the field. Students will be asked, as much as possible, to read original texts, rather than a textbook. Time permitting, we will also examine topics of particular current interest, such as the evolving nature of power in the post-Cold War environment as well as special global challenges like nation-building and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 121-1 Democracy in America Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Meliora Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: James Johnson
Restrictions: Open only to Freshman and Sophomores - AS&E
Description: Democracy literally means "rule by the people." This seminar in political theory will explore various questions that this basic definition raises in the context of 20th-century American politics. What can we expect of "the people"? How, indeed, do we even envision "the people"? What is the role of communication, especially modern media, in creating and sustaining "the people"? How might we think about the ways in which power and communication intersect in modern democracies? In many respects this course is experimental. It aims to draw connections between texts and theorists that have not been made before. So we will be exploring new terrain. Students will learn what it means to think like a political theorist. Enrollment is restricted to first-year students - no exceptions. Grades will be based on class participation - given that this is a small seminar, be prepared to talk! - and several short papers (meaning about five pages each) on assigned topics that emerge from the readings and class discussion. Course open to first-year and sophomores only.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 200-1 Data Analysis I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Byungkwon Song
Description: Data analysis has become a key part of many fields including politics, business, law, and public policy. This course covers the fundamentals of data analysis, giving students the necessary statistical skills to understand and critically analyze contemporary political, legal, and policy puzzles. Lectures will focus on the theory and practice of quantitative analysis, and lab sessions will guide students through the particulars of statistical software. Core topics include descriptive statistics, probability, hypothesis testing, and linear regression. No prior knowledge of statistics or data analysis is required. Without special permission of the instructor, students may not enroll in this course if they have earned credit and a letter grade for ECO 230, PSC 205, PSY/CSP 211, STT 211, STT 212, STT 213, STT 214, or any other course in statistics, or if they have received a score of 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement exam in Statistics. NOTE: STUDENTS NEED TO BRING A LAPTOP TO CLASS AS YOU MUST BE ABLE TO RUN R.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 205-1 Data analysis II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Dewey Room 2110E 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
34 		Capacity     
45
Instructors: Curt Signorino
Description: This course builds on PSCI 200, Data Analysis I, taking the linear regression model as its starting point.  We will explore various statistical techniques for analyzing a world of data that is relevant to political science in particular, and to the social sciences more broadly.  In addition to the classical linear regression model, we will examine models for binary data, durations, counts, censoring and truncation, self-selection, and discrete choice, among others.  These models will be applied to topics such as international conflict, civil war onset, parliamentary cabinet survival, international sanctions, campaign contributions, and voting.  Students will be taught how to (1) frame research hypotheses, (2) analyze data using the appropriate statistical model, and (3) interpret and present their results.  Statistical analysis will be conducted using R and RStudio.  

Note: Students will need to bring a laptop computer to class with R and RStudio installed.  Most tablets will not suffice.

Prerequisite:  Students must have taken at least one course in statistics that (1) covers probability, confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, and linear regression; and (2) uses R for data analysis -- e.g., ECON 230, PSCI 200, or STAT 212/213/214.  Prior courses in calculus or linear algebra are not required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 214-1 Race and the Law Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
32 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: AAAS 212-1, PSCI 214-1 (P)
Instructors: Alexander Moon
Description: This course deals with questions raised at the intersection of constitutional law and sociological and political science studies of the politics and practice of race in the United States.  While studying major court decisions concerning race and slavery, voting, property rights, segregation/de-segregation, criminal justice, voting, discrimination, and affirmative action, we will examine questions such as: what is the role of the legal system in constituting and perpetuating the racial order of the United States?  To what extent do court rulings reflect more than they shape what actually happens outside of the legal system?  How, if at all, do they shape public opinion?  What are the advantages and disadvantages of courts as a tool for social change?  Do answers to these questions vary by area of law and/or historical period?  The course is largely discussion-based and will include readings in case law, critical legal studies, critical race theory, and works in political science and sociology.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 216-1 Environmental Health and Justice in the Rochester Community Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Lechase Room 184 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: PHLT 238-1 (P), PSCI 216-1
Instructors: Katrina Korfmacher
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: This course takes a systems-change approach to problems of environmental health and justice. It will provide students with a methodological, conceptual, and experiential foundation in addressing problems through policies, partnerships, and community engagement. We will closely examine several timely local issues such as subsistence fishing, climate adaptation, equitable transportation, and housing. For each major topic, students will engage in background research, practice diverse data collection strategies, interact with relevant community groups, and gain experience integrating multidisciplinary information. Students will also undertake a semester-long community engaged project to address an environmental justice issue of concern to a local organization. 

NOTE: This is a community-engaged class and will involve significant blocks of time in field work, trips, and guest speakers. To accommodate this, there is an extended "lab" session; this session is required and will take place on Thursday from 3:25 - 4:40. This class is designated as part of the Certificate of Achievement in Community-Engaged Learning.

PRE-REQUISITES: PHLT 101, PHLT 116, or PHLT 102; or by permission of instructor for students with significant policy, community change, or environmental management background.
Offered: Fall
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PSCI 217-1 Public Policy and Black Communities: Education, Poverty, Affirmative Action, and Crime Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1150 1240 Morey Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Alexander Moon
Offered: Fall Spring
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PSCI 224-1 Incarceration Nation Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1025 1115 Bausch & Lomb Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
88 		Capacity     
90
Co-Located: AAAS 183-1, HIST 112-1, PSCI 224-1, RELC 183-1 (P)
Instructors: Joshua Dubler
Description: How does a country with five percent of the world's population, a country that nominally values freedom above all else, come to have nearly a quarter of the world's incarcerated people? In this survey course we investigate the history of imprisonment in the United States--as theorized and as practiced--from the founding of the republic to the present day. Special attention is paid to the politics, economics, race politics, and religious logics of contemporary mass incarceration, and to the efforts afoot to end mass incarceration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 225-1 Cultural Politics of Prison Towns Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1400 1640 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: AAAS 200-1, ANTH 233-1 (P), GSWS 233-1, PSCI 225-1, RELC 230-1
Instructors: Kristin Doughty; Joshua Dubler
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Rochester sits in one of the worlds most explicitly carceral landscapes, with more than a dozen state prisons within a 90 min drive. This co-taught course is a collaborative ethnographic research project designed to examine how the presence of prisons in towns around Rochester reflects and shapes the political, economic, and cultural lives of those who live in the region. Students will be introduced to methods and practices of ethnography and conduct firsthand research on the cultural politics of prison towns. Through assigned reading, students will learn about the history, sociology, and cultural logics of Rochester and the wider region, and of mass incarceration. What does a prison mean for a person living near one? How does the presence of prisons shape peoples notions of justice, citizenship, and punishment? How do these nearby but largely invisible institutions shape the ways that we live in Rochester? Recommended prior courses: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology or Incarceration Nation
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 226W-1 Act Locally?: Local Government and Public Policy in the U.S. Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1815 2055 Harkness Room 329 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
16
Instructors: Mitchell Gruber
Description: Reformers and activists sometimes say that we should 'think globally, act locally,' meaning that we should try to address widespread needs by taking action in our neighborhoods, towns and cities. What happens when you apply this maxim to government and public policy in the United States? This course will introduce you to local government policymaking in the United States, with a focus on urban areas. You'll gain a familiarity with the powers local governments have over key policies and servicessuch as policing and criminal justice, housing and land-use regulation, transportation, public education and public healthand learn to think systematically about what local governments can do to address public needs. What you learn will be applicable throughout the U.S., but we'll focus on examples of policymaking currently underway in the City of Rochester and the surrounding regionoffering you a chance to learn more about the University's local community
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 230-1 Public Health Law & Policy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Lattimore Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: PHLT 230-1 (P), PSCI 230-1
Instructors: Molly McNulty
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The course introduces the legal and social justice frameworks for urgent public health issues, such as vaccinations, tobacco regulation and gun control. Pre-requisites: PHLT 116 or PHLT 236 required or previous policy or public health coursework; juniors & seniors only.
Offered: Spring
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PSCI 231W-1 Maternal Child Health Policy Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Morey Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: PHLT 234W-1 (P), PSCI 231W-1
Instructors: Molly McNulty
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Students will learn how government funds, organizes and delivers health care, broadly defined, to mothers, children, and adolescents; as well as legal and policy writing skills relevant to advocacy, such as issue fact sheets, legislative testimony, and letters to the editor.

Pre-requisites: PHLT 116, PHLT 236, or PHLT 230 required or previous policy or public health coursework; juniors & seniors only
Offered: Fall
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PSCI 239-2 Int'l Environmental Law Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Harkness Room 115 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
22
Co-Located: EHUM 239-2, INTR 239-2 (P), PSCI 239-2, SUST 239-2
Instructors: Milena Novy-Marx
Description: An examination of international environmental law and policy with a special focus on efforts to address climate change, including the Paris Agreement under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. This course serves as a companion to PSC 246, but PSC 246 is not a prerequisite. The goal of this course is to provide a foundational understanding of this rapidly developing, controversial field. Topics include consideration of the scientific, political, and economic drivers of international environmental law; the variety of tools (e.g., treaties, agreements, soft law,? voluntary incentive programs and market based approaches); and examples of how some international environmental issues have been addressed to date, including efforts to date on climate change. This course will be taught through lectures, discussion, several concise papers, and a group project.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 240-1 Criminal Procedure & Constitutional Principles Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Gavett Hall Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
62 		Capacity     
70
Instructors: Edward Fiandach
Description: Through analysis of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, we examine criminal procedure as elaborated by federal and state court decisions. Topics include arrest procedures, search and seizure, right to counsel, and police interrogation and confessions. We will discuss the theoretical principles of criminal procedure and the application of those principles to the actual operation of the criminal court system.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 244K-1 Politics & Markets: Innovation and the Global Business Environment Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Gavett Hall Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
70 		Capacity     
70
Instructors: David Primo
Description: Innovation is a driving force behind the massive increases in wealth that occurred in the 20th century, and the globalization of business is causing changes in the world's economy that we are only beginning to understand. In this course, we will spend several weeks studying how entrepreneurship and innovation are affected by government institutions. We will then spend several weeks studying business strategy in the global business environment, focusing on the role of regulations imposed by foreign governments and international organizations. Class meetings will be a mix of lecture and discussion, use real-world cases, and feature guest speakers. By the end of the course, you will have a stronger understanding of how businesses shape and are shaped by government policies. There are no prerequisites for this course, though some exposure to political science or economics is useful.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 253-1 Comparative Political Parties Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1400 1640 Harkness Room 112 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
8
Co-Located: INTR 253-1 (P), INTR 253W-1, PSCI 253-1, PSCI 253W-1
Instructors: Bonnie Meguid
Description: Examines the nature of political parties and political competition across democracies in the developed and developing worlds.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 253W-1 Comparative Political Parties Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1400 1640 Harkness Room 112 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
3
Co-Located: INTR 253-1 (P), INTR 253W-1, PSCI 253-1, PSCI 253W-1
Instructors: Bonnie Meguid
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Examines the nature of political parties and political competition across democracies in the developed and developing worlds. Issues analyzed include the formation of different types of parties, their role in agenda-setting, policy-making and representation, and their transformation in the post-World War II era.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 254-1 Fascism: Politics, History, and Culture Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Gavett Hall Room 310 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
45 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: INTR 254-1 (P), INTR 254W-1, PSCI 254-1, PSCI 254W-1
Instructors: Kevin Clarke
Description: Fascism is a common term of political opprobrium, but few know what it actually means. This course examines the ideologies and practices of fascist movements to understand both the past and the present. Students learn about the economic, political, and cultural circumstances from which fascism emerged, and we consider the fascist obsession with national, sexual, and racial identity. Class time is divided between lecture and discussion; students are encouraged to participate.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 254W-1 Fascism: Politics, History, and Culture Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Gavett Hall Room 310 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
45 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: INTR 254-1 (P), INTR 254W-1, PSCI 254-1, PSCI 254W-1
Instructors: Kevin Clarke
Description: Fascism is a common term of political opprobrium, but few know what it actually means. This course examines the ideologies and practices of fascist movements to understand both the past and the present. Students learn about the economic, political, and cultural circumstances from which fascism emerged, and we consider the fascist obsession with national, sexual, and racial identity. Class time is divided between lecture and discussion; students are encouraged to participate.
Offered: Fall Spring
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PSCI 260-1 Democratic Erosion Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Harkness Room 329 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: INTR 260-1 (P), INTR 260W-1, PSCI 260-1, PSCI 260W-1
Instructors: Gretchen Helmke
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: Is American democracy under threat? What about democracy in the West, or the world more generally? How can we detect if democracies are eroding? Democratic Erosion is a new upper-level undergraduate seminar, based on a cross-university collaboration, which is aimed at evaluating threats to democracy both in the United States and abroad through the lens of theory, history and social science. Importantly, the class is not intended as a partisan critique, but rather teaches students how to answer questions about democratic erosion using both analytical and empirical tools. NOTE: Not open to first-year students.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 260W-1 Democratic Erosion Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Harkness Room 329 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: INTR 260-1 (P), INTR 260W-1, PSCI 260-1, PSCI 260W-1
Instructors: Gretchen Helmke
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description:

Is American democracy under threat? What about democracy in the West, or the world more generally? How can we detect if democracies are eroding? Democratic Erosion is a new upper-level undergraduate seminar, based on a cross-university collaboration, which is aimed at evaluating threats to democracy both in the United States and abroad through the lens of theory, history and social science. Importantly, the class is not intended as a partisan critique, but rather teaches students how to answer questions about democratic erosion using both analytical and empirical tools. NOTE: Course not open to first-year students.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 268-1 International Organization Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Harkness Room 112 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
5
Co-Located: INTR 268-1 (P), INTR 268W-1, PSCI 268-1, PSCI 268W-1
Instructors: Randall Stone
Description: This course focuses on a key mechanism facilitating international cooperation – international institutions. The course examines institutions ranging from informal institutions, or regimes, to formal, intergovernmental organizations. We ask the following questions: how are institutions established? What makes them change over time? What impact (if any) do they have? How do they influence government policies? How do they operate? How do they structure decision-making? How do international institutions affect domestic politics? The course will begin by focusing on different theoretical perspectives on these questions, and continue by examining international institutions in specific issue areas.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 268W-1 International Organization Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Harkness Room 112 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
3
Co-Located: INTR 268-1 (P), INTR 268W-1, PSCI 268-1, PSCI 268W-1
Instructors: Randall Stone
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course focuses on a key mechanism facilitating international cooperation—international institutions. The course examines institutions ranging from informal institutions, or regimes, to formal, intergovernmental organizations. We ask the following questions: how are institutions established? What makes them change over time? What impact (if any) do they have? How do they influence government policies? How do they operate? How do they structure decision-making? How do international institutions affect domestic politics? The course will begin by focusing on different theoretical perspectives on these questions, and continue by examining international institutions in specific issue areas.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 282-2 Making Public Policy Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Gavett Hall Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: PSCI 282-2 (P), PSCI 282W-1, PSCI 482-2
Instructors: Sergio Montero
Description: What should governments do? What can governments do? What do policymakers want to do? This course examines these questions from the perspective of modern political economy. The perspective is twofold: it comprises both a set of tools (mathematical modeling and rigorous empirical analysis) and a fundamental premise that public policy is the outcome of rational, strategic choices by self-interested policymakers who face institutional constraints that shape their incentives and limit their scope of action. The course begins by discussing normative considerations about what might constitute "good" public policy. It then explores areas where public policy has the potential to improve social welfare in a modern economy. Finally, it analyzes how the political process influences policymakers' actual choices. Special attention is given to key differences between developed and developing countries. Students are expected to have taken PSCI 107 or a similar introductory course on formal models of decision-making.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 282W-1 Making Public Policy Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Gavett Hall Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
5
Co-Located: PSCI 282-2 (P), PSCI 282W-1, PSCI 482-2
Instructors: Sergio Montero
Description: What should governments do? What can governments do? What do policymakers want to do? This course examines these questions from the perspective of modern political economy. The perspective is twofold: it comprises both a set of tools (mathematical modeling and rigorous empirical analysis) and a fundamental premise that public policy is the outcome of rational, strategic choices by self-interested policymakers who face institutional constraints that shape their incentives and limit their scope of action. The course begins by discussing normative considerations about what might constitute "good" public policy. It then explores areas where public policy has the potential to improve social welfare in a modern economy. Finally, it analyzes how the political process influences policymakers' actual choices. Special attention is given to key differences between developed and developing countries. Students are expected to have taken PSCI 107 or a similar introductory course on formal models of decision-making.
Offered: Fall Spring
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PSCI 284-2 Democratic Theory Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Lechase Room 148 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: James Johnson
Description: Focuses on various topics in democratic theory such as the relation between democracy and other basic political principles (liberty, equality, justice), whether democratic institutions should best be aggregative or deliberative, and the role of referenda, lotteries and new telecommunications technology in democratic decision-making.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 288-1 Game Theory Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Meliora Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
100 		Capacity     
125
Instructors: Anastassios Kalandrakis
Description: Game theory is a systematic study of strategic situations. It is a theory that helps us analyze economic and political strategic issues, such as behavior of individuals in a group, competition among firms in a market, platform choices of political candidates, and so on. We will develop the basic concepts and results of game theory, including simultaneous and sequential move games, repeated games and games with incomplete information. The objective of the course is to enable the student to analyze strategic situations on his/her own. The emphasis of the course is on theoretical aspects of strategic behavior, so familiarity with mathematical formalism is desirable.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 296-2 Freedom and Domination in Black Political Philosophy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 900 950 Meliora Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AAAS 282-2, PSCI 296-2, PSCI 496-1 (P)
Instructors: Alexander Moon
Description: This course is a survey of some of the canonical and some of the most exciting contemporary works in the field of African-American political thought.  We begin with foundational texts from Walker, Delany, Douglass, Wells, Du Bois, Garvey, Baldwin, King, and Malcolm X.  In the first half of the course we will focus on questions such as: What is the nature of the wrong(s) African Americans have suffered in the United States?  What sustains systems of domination and exclusion?  What responses, in addition to condemnation, do these systems of domination merit?  What does the long history of white domination in the United States say about ideals of liberalism and democracy?  And what is the way forward?  In the second part of the course, we will read contemporary works dealing with reparations, collective responsibility, obligations to solidarity/allyship, and epistemologies of ignorance.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 316W-1 Pandemics, Politics and Policies in the US, 1918-2020 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Rush Rhees Library Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
19
Co-Located: HIST 374W-1 (P), HIST 474-1, PHLT 374-1, PSCI 316W-1
Instructors: Mical Raz
Restrictions: Not open to First Year and Sophomore - AS&E
Description: In this advanced seminar, students will learn about prior epidemics and pandemics primarily in the United States, and asses the policy responses to these events. They will learn about a number of key case studies in the history of pandemic response, and examine the political history of these responses. They will critically examine primary sources to shed light on contemporary understandings of pandemics and the responses to them, and how these responses were negotiated. With this knowledge and analysis, students will learn to think critically about current pandemics and tie them to a longer history of pandemic responses.  
Offered: Fall Spring
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PSCI 356-1 Political Institutions & Behavior Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Harkness Room 329 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
8
Co-Located: PSCI 356-1 (P), PSCI 556-1
Instructors: Bonnie Meguid
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description:
This course introduces the most distinctive configurations of democratic political institutions and the behaviors of citizens and elites that they induce. The political institutions include election rules, parliamentary and presidential executives, strong and weak legislatures, political parties and party systems. The behaviors studied include ideological and clientelistic party strategies and citizen voting, government formation and policymaking, and efforts to influence and to avoid constraints.  We will consider multiple research approaches, the dynamics of stability and change, comparisons to electoral authoritarianism, and the effects of context.   NOTE:  PSCI 356 undergraduates need instructor permission.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 373-1 Territory and Group Conflict Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Meliora Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: INTR 373-1 (P), INTR 373W-1, PSCI 373-1, PSCI 373W-1, PSCI 573-1
Instructors: Henk Goemans
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This graduate seminar examines a long neglected topic: the role of territory in group politics. BuildS a basic understanding of why, when, how and which territory becomes contested. NOTE: Instructor permission required.
Offered: Fall Spring
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PSCI 373W-1 Territory and Group Conflict Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Meliora Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: INTR 373-1 (P), INTR 373W-1, PSCI 373-1, PSCI 373W-1, PSCI 573-1
Instructors: Henk Goemans
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This graduate seminar examines a long-neglected topic: the role of territory in group politics. The goal is to build a basic understanding of why, when, how and which territory becomes contested. We will read from a broad range of disciplines. Each student is expected to write two short papers for two different sessions, which are not to exceed 1500 words. Each paper should provide an independent commentary of you own on some aspect of that week's readings. These papers form the background against which we will discuss the readings in class. In addition, each student is required to write a 20-25 page research paper, which focuses in depth on one of the discussed emerging research agendas. As in other graduate seminars, the course will be conducted almost exclusively through discussion. Hence it is crucial that students do the reading in advance, to set aside time to reflect on the readings, and to prepare comments and questions. Instructor permission required for undergraduates.
Offered: Fall Spring
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PSCI 390-4 Supervised Teaching: PSCI 205 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
2
Instructors: Curt Signorino
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Instructor permission required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 390-5 Supervised Teaching: PSCI 239 Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
2
Instructors: Milena Novy-Marx
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Instructor permission required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 390-6 Supervised Teaching: PSCI 240 Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
2
Instructors: Edward Fiandach
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Instructor permission required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 393W-1 Senior Honors Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: INTR 393W-1 (P), PSCI 393W-1
Instructors: Scott Abramson
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: A year-long research project supervised by a faculty member in the department and culminating in a written work. Instructor permission required.
Offered: Spring
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PSCI 399-1 Washington Semester Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Stuart Jordan
Description: These internships provide an opportunity to learn experientially one or more of the following: how government functions; how public policies are created, adopted and implemented; and how political campaigns work. Students intern in Congress, the executive branch, party campaign committees, and lobbying and advocacy groups. For applications and information, students should contact Professor Stu Jordan. An interest meeting is held each semester.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 405-1 Causal Inference Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Harkness Room 329 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Anderson Frey
Description: The goal of this course is to give students a comprehensive toolbox for reading and producing cutting-edge applied empirical research, with focus on the theory and practice behind causal inference in social sciences. We will cover treatment effects, experiments, panel data, differences-in-differences, instrumental variables, nonparametric regression, regression discontinuity, matching, synthetic control, and more. Students will read applied papers from both political science and economics, and write review reports examining research designs, identification strategies, and causal claims. They will also produce research proposals that will be presented in class. Applications will be taught with R.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 408-1 Postive Political Theory II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1000 1130 Harkness Room 329 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Anastassios Kalandrakis
Description: This course is part of a rigorous introduction to the main concepts and results in positive political theory. It is the second half of a two-course sequence consisting of PSC 407 and PSC 408. This course will focus on the basics of game theory, which analyzes individual behavior in strategic situations. It will also cover the mathematical tools required to express the theory. Examples and applications will be drawn from several different areas in political science, including the American Congress, voting, international relations, political economy, and law.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 482-2 Making Public Policy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Gavett Hall Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: PSCI 282-2 (P), PSCI 282W-1, PSCI 482-2
Instructors: Sergio Montero
Description: What should governments do? What can governments do? What do policymakers want to do? This course examines these questions from the perspective of modern political economy. The perspective is twofold: it comprises both a set of tools (mathematical modeling and rigorous empirical analysis) and a fundamental premise that public policy is the outcome of rational, strategic choices by self-interested policymakers who face institutional constraints that shape their incentives and limit their scope of action. The course begins by discussing normative considerations about what might constitute "good" public policy. It then explores areas where public policy has the potential to improve social welfare in a modern economy. Finally, it analyzes how the political process influences policymakers' actual choices. Special attention is given to key differences between developed and developing countries. Students are expected to have taken PSCI 107 or a similar introductory course on formal models of decision-making.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 491-1 Master's Readings in Pol Sci Spring 2023 5.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: David Primo
Description: Master's Readings in Political Science
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 493-1 Master's Essay Spring 2023 18.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: David Primo
Description: Master's Essay
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 496-1 Freedom and Domination in Black Politics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 900 950 Meliora Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AAAS 282-2, PSCI 296-2, PSCI 496-1 (P)
Instructors: Alexander Moon
Description: This course is a survey of some of the canonical and some of the most exciting contemporary works in the field of African-American political thought. We begin with foundational texts from Walker, Delany, Douglass, Wells, Du Bois, Garvey, Baldwin, King, and Malcolm X. In the first half of the course we will focus on questions such as: What is the nature of the wrong(s) African Americans have suffered in the United States? What sustains systems of domination and exclusion? What responses, in addition to condemnation, do these systems of domination merit? What does the long history of white domination in the United States say about ideals of liberalism and democracy? And what is the way forward? In the second part of the course, we will read contemporary works dealing with reparations, collective responsibility, obligations to solidarity/allyship, and epistemologies of ignorance.
Offered: Spring
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PSCI 507-1 Experiments in PS Research Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Harkness Room 329 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Scott Abramson
Description: Researchers in comparative politics, American politics, international relations, political methodology, and political theory increasingly rely on data collected from various types of experiments to answer important questions in their fields. This graduate-level class is designed to introduce students to experimental techniques and the applications of experiments in political science. Students who take this course should have completed causal inference (PSC 504). While this is primarily a seminar course, students will cover statistical material and get a hands-on introduction to programming tools for experimental research in R. This course is not specific to a particular subfield; students will get exposure to a wide range of experimental methods (lab experiments, field experiments, surveys, etc.) used across different research areas.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 540-1 American Political Institutions Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1640 Harkness Room 329 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: David Primo
Description: This course aims to provide graduate students with a foundation from which to conduct original research on U.S. political institutions. We will survey theoretical and empirical literature across areas of focus in the sub-field of U.S. politics. We will also explore perspectives on the institutions-based approach to research, especially in the context of U.S. politics. In addition to reading published research, students will gain exposure to a set of "workhorse" models and empirical strategies that practitioners rely upon when conducting research on U.S. political institutions. Students will be expected to participate actively in class discussions as well as to lead some discussions of assigned articles. The central assignment will be the development of a research proposal that demonstrates promise for development into a publishable paper.

This course is one of two core courses in the U.S. politics sequence, with the other laying the foundation for conducting original research on U.S. political behavior. The two may be taken in either order. The prerequisites for this class include the first semester of the graduate theory and methods training.
Offered: Fall Spring
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PSCI 556-1 Political Inst. & Behavior Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Harkness Room 329 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
8
Co-Located: PSCI 356-1 (P), PSCI 556-1
Instructors: Bonnie Meguid
Description: This course introduces the most distinctive configurations of democratic political institutions and the behaviors of citizens and elites that they induce. The political institutions include election rules, parliamentary and presidential executives, strong and weak legislatures, political parties and party systems. The behaviors studied include ideological and clientelistic party strategies and citizen voting, government formation and policymaking, and efforts to influence and to avoid constraints.  We will consider multiple research approaches, the dynamics of stability and change, comparisons to electoral authoritarianism, and the effects of context.   NOTE:  PSCI 356 undergraduates need instructor permission.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 559-1 Historical Political Economy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 930 1200 Harkness Room 329 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Alexander Lee
Description: This course will introduce students to the vast and growing literature that uses modern methodological techniques to examine historical events and the historical origins of the modern world. Topics include colonialism, social inequality, the effects of conflict and critical junctures.
Offered: Fall Spring
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PSCI 573-1 Territory and Group Conflict Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Meliora Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: INTR 373-1 (P), INTR 373W-1, PSCI 373-1, PSCI 373W-1, PSCI 573-1
Instructors: Henk Goemans
Description: This graduate seminar examines a long neglected topic: the role of territory in group politics. The goal is to build a basic understanding of why, when, how and which territory becomes contested. We will read from a broad range of disciplines. Each student is expected to write two short papers for two different sessions, which are not to exceed 1500 words. Each paper should provide an independent commentary of your own on some aspect of that week's readings. These papers form the background against which we will discuss the readings in class. In addition, each student is required to write a 20-25 page research paper, which focuses in depth on one of the discussed emerging research agendas. As in other graduate seminars, the course will be conducted almost exclusively through discussion. Hence it is crucial that students do the reading in advance, to set aside time to reflect on the readings, and to prepare comments and questions.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 576-2 Graduate Research Seminar Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1400 1530 Harkness Room 329 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Lawrence Rothenberg
Description: Designed as a forum for upper-level doctoral students who have completed formal coursework to present ongoing research. Students regularly present research either stemming from their dissertations or from ancillary projects.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSCI 586-1 Voting and Elections Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1345 1630 Harkness Room 329 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Mark Fey
Description: Structural models enable social scientists to conduct rich analyses of how institutions and public policy shape individual or collective decision making. The structural approach to empirical research is particularly useful in settings where more traditional methods cannot be applied, such as when agents behave strategically or when we wish to predict the consequences of never-before-observed policy interventions. This course covers the fundamentals of structural modeling and estimation. Depending on student interest, applications from economics, marketing, and political science will be considered.
Offered: Fall Spring
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PSCI 589-1 Social Choice, Bargaining, and Elections Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1000 1200 Harkness Room 112 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: John Duggan
Description: The course covers the primary results in the literature on preference aggregation and applies them to models of elections and policy-making. The focus of the course is especially on dynamic models of politics, with an emphasis on structural similarities between models of bargaining and elections. We begin by studying Arrow's theorem and majority voting, and we review the workhorse models of agenda setting and static elections in the political economy literature, including the setter model of Romer and Rosenthal and the Downsian and probabilistic models of elections. The analysis moves to the study of the Baron-Ferejohn model of bargaining and dynamic models of elections, including the two-period model of political agency with adverse selection and moral hazard. We end by considering the fully dynamic bargaining model, in which the status quo evolves endogenously over time, and the infinite-horizon political agency model.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Psychology
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
PSYC 101-1 Introduction to Psychology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Hoyt Hall Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
175 		Capacity     
200
Instructors: Marie-Joelle Estrada
Description: Is a balanced and integrated survey of psychology with coverage of both social and natural science domains. Sections of PSYC 101 vary, but most consist of lectures, readings, discussions, and demonstrations.

This is a social science course.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 110-1 Neural Foundations of Behavior Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Hoyt Hall Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
131 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: BCSC 110-1 (P), CVSC 110-1, PSYC 110-1
Instructors: Kevin Davis
Description: Introduces the structure and organization of the brain, and its role in perception, movement, thinking, and other behavior. Topics include the brain as a special kind of computer, localization of function, effects of brain damage and disorders, differences between human and animal brains, sex differences, perception and control of movement, sleep, regulation of body states and emotions, and development and aging. No prerequisites.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 111-1 Foundations of Cognitive Science Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Hoyt Hall Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
177 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: BCSC 111-1 (P), PSYC 111-1
Instructors: Martina Poletti
Description: Introduces the organization of mental processes underlying cognition and behavior. Topics include perception, language, learning, memory, and intelligence. This course integrates knowledge of cognition generated from the field of cognitive psychology with findings from artificial intelligence and cognitive neuroscience. No prerequisites.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 153-1 Cognition Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Dewey Room 1101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
117 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: BCSC 153-1 (P), PSYC 153-1
Instructors: Chung-Lin Yang
Description: Considers human cognitive processes, including behavioral, cognitive-neuroscientific, connectionist, and evolutionary approaches to the understanding of cognition. Explores how we perceive and integrate sensory information to build a coherent perception of the world. Includes topics on perception, attention, memory, language, cognitive development, and artificial intelligence.

Prerequisites: BCS 111 required, BCS 110 recommended
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 161-1 Social Psychology & Individual Differences Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Strong Auditorium Room 011 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
267 		Capacity     
300
Instructors: Kristiana Feeser
Description: An introduction to the field of social psychology and an overview of research on individual differences in personality. Topics include the self, attitudes, social cognition, emotion, interpersonal attraction, relationships, helping, social influence, group behavior, and dispositional differences among people. Students will complete several individual difference measures and receive individualized feedback at the end of the course. Format is lectures augmented with discussions and demonstrations.

This is a social science course.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 161W-1 Social Psychology & Individual Differences Spring 2023 0.5 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Kristiana Feeser
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Fulfills Upper-Level Writing Requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 172-1 Development of Mind & Brain Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Morey Room 321 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
93 		Capacity     
125
Co-Located: BCSC 172-1 (P), PSYC 172-1
Instructors: Daniel Mruzek
Description: Introduces human development, focusing on the ability to perceive objects and sounds, to think and reason, and to learn and remember language and other significant patterned stimulation. Includes the nature and mechanisms of development in humans and an overview of what is known about brain and behavioral development in other species. No prerequisites.
Offered: Spring
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PSYC 208-1 Lab in Perception & Cognition Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1530 1830 Meliora Room 178 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: BCSC 208-1 (P), CVSC 208-1, PSYC 208-1
Instructors: Kevin Davis
Description: Introduces behavioral and psychophysical studies of perceptual and cognitive phenomena. Students perform, analyze, interpret, and report results from experiments that move from reproducing classic phenomena to conducting new studies independently.

Prerequisites: STAT 212 and either BCSC 151 or BCSC 153
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 209-1 Psychology of Human Sexuality Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Strong Auditorium Room 011 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
300 		Capacity     
300
Co-Located: GSWS 209-1, PSYC 209-1 (P)
Instructors: Ronald Rogge
Description: Survey course on understanding sexuality. Includes such topics as biological sexual differentiation, gender role, gender-linked social behaviors, reproduction issues, intimacy, and the role of social and personal factors in psychosexual development.

This is a social science course.

Prerequisite: PSYC 101
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 209W-1 Psychology of Human Sexuality Spring 2023 0.5 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Ronald Rogge
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Fulfills upper-level writing requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 210-1 Social Cognition Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
45 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: BCSC 185-2, PSYC 210-1 (P)
Instructors: Jeremy Jamieson
Description: Social cognition combines classic social psychology with methods and theories from cognitive psychology and neuroscience to study how people make sense of each other and the social world. We will examine how the social environment influences cognitive processes such as attention, heuristics, and appraisals, and how these processes in turn affect decisions, behaviors, and health. We will critically evaluate research on a variety of topics, such as emotion regulation, stereotyping and prejudice, and stress and decision making.

This is a social science course.

Prerequisite: PSYC 101 recommended
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 210W-1 Social Cognition Spring 2023 0.5 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Jeremy Jamieson
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Fulfills upper-level writing requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 219-1 Research Methods in Psychology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Meliora Room 366 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
28 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Karl Rosengren; Daniel Mruzek
Description:

An introduction to the basic concepts, logic, and procedures needed to do psychological research with an emphasis on current best practices. Hands-on experience with all major phases of the research process is provided, including: surveying the existing literature, developing research hypotheses, collecting and analyzing data, and reporting the results in manuscript form.

This is a social science course.

Prerequisites: PSYC 101 and an introductory statistics course (e.g., STAT 211, STAT 212)
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 219W-1 Research Methods in Psychology Spring 2023 0.5 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Karl Rosengren; Daniel Mruzek
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Fulfills upper-level writing requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 221-1 Auditory Perception Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Hutchison Hall Room 473 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: BCSC 221-1 (P), BCSC 521-1, PSYC 221-1
Instructors: Kevin Davis
Description: This course considers how we comprehend the auditory environment. Topics include the physical stimulus for hearing, the physiology of the auditory system (both at the periphery and in the central nervous system), the psychophysics of basic auditory perception (e.g., hearing thresholds), higher level auditory perception (including auditory scene analysis and the perception of complex auditory events such as speech and music), and hearing disorders. Considers research from a diverse range of perspectives including behavioral research, cognitive neuroscience, studies of individual differences, and research that adopts a comparative perspective.

Prerequisite: BCSC 110 or BCSC 111
Offered: Spring
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PSYC 232-1 Psychology of Consumerism Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Computer Studies Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
68 		Capacity     
70
Instructors: Marie-Joelle Estrada
Description: Examines the psychology behind product placement, marketing of products, brand identity and advertising to consumers.

This is a social science course.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 232W-1 Psychology of Consumerism Spring 2023 0.5 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Marie-Joelle Estrada
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Fulfills upper-level writing requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 246-1 Biology of Mental Disorders Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Goergen Hall Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
68 		Capacity     
80
Co-Located: BCSC 246-1 (P), BCSC 546-1, NSCI 246-1, PSYC 246-1
Instructors: Renee Miller
Description: Examines the neurobiology of anxiety/phobic conditions, mood disorders, and chronic psychotic states, particularly schizophrenia. Considers definitions of psychiatric syndromes, the problems of diagnosis, brain organization, and neurotransmitter systems involved in state functions. Introduces research approaches including epidemiologic, phenomenologic, family/adoption, longitudinal descriptive, psychophysiologic, neuropharmacologic, genetic linkage, and postmortem studies; emphasizes recent in vivo brain imaging and neuroreceptor studies.

Prerequisite: NSCI 201/BCSC 240
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 248-1 Social Neuroscience Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Goergen Hall Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
50 		Capacity     
50
Instructors: David Dodell-Feder
Description: Human beings are fundamentally social animals equipped with a brilliant piece of social machinery: the brain. Through the workings of this elegant electrical and biological machine we are able to reason about other people’s unobservable thoughts, emotions, and intentions, make moral judgments, and communicate with others. How does the brain develop the ability to accomplish these tasks? What regions of the brain are involved and what computations do they perform? How is this neural machinery affected by the social environment and psychiatric illness? In this course, we will examine the latest research in human social neuroscience towards answering these and related questions.

This is a social science course.

Prerequisites: PSYC 101 or BCSC 110
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 248W-1 Social Neuroscience Spring 2023 0.5 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: David Dodell-Feder
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Fulfills upper-level writing requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 262-1 An Approach to Human Motivation Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Meliora Room 221 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
52 		Capacity     
75
Instructors: Christopher Niemiec
Description: This course provides a review of the theoretical and empirical development of a contemporary approach to human motivation, namely, Self-Determination Theory, which originated at the University of Rochester and is currently researched by scholars around the world. Topics will also include applications of Self-Determination Theory to such domains as psychopathology and psychological health, work, education, sport, and culture.

This is a social science course.

Prerequisites: PSYC 161 or PSYC 181

NOTE: When registering for the main section you must register for a recitation.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 262W-1 An Approach to Human Motivation Spring 2023 0.5 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Christopher Niemiec
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Fulfills Upper-Level Writing Requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 264-1 Industrial & Organizational Psychology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1400 1640 Morey Room 321 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
67 		Capacity     
90
Instructors: Barry Friedman
Description: Applications of psychological theory and research to work settings. Topics include personnel selection, training and appraisal; organizational structure and transformation; performance in work groups; motivation and satisfaction; leadership; work conditions; and cross-cultural issues.

This is a social science course.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 264W-1 Industrial & Organizational Psychology Spring 2023 0.5 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Barry Friedman
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Fulfills upper-level writing requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 274W-1 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Psychology Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1525 1640 Dewey Room 4162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: PSYC 274W-1, WRTG 274-1 (P)
Instructors: Kathryn Phillips
Description: This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. The class can be used to fulfill 1 of 2 required Upper-Level Writing experiences in psychology, and is suitable for junior and senior psychology majors; all others require instructor permission.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement

Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 278-1 Adolescent Development Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Meliora Room 221 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
80 		Capacity     
80
Instructors: Erinn Duprey
Description: This course surveys theory and research relating to normal development during adolescence. Adolescent development is examined in a variety of contexts, including families, peer groups, and schools, and issues pertaining to biological, social, and cognitive development are discussed.

This is a social science course.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 278W-1 Adolescent Development Spring 2023 0.5 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Erinn Duprey
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Fulfills upper-level writing requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 282-1 Psychopathology Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Dewey Room 1101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
165 		Capacity     
165
Instructors: Daniel Mruzek
Description: Formerly "Abnormal Psychology". This course provides a conceptual overview to the field of psychopathology. We will discuss assessment and diagnosis, etiology, developmental course, treatment, and prognosis of the major psychological disorders. Current theory and research will be emphasized.

This is a social science course.
Offered: Spring
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PSYC 282W-1 Psychopathology Spring 2023 0.5 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Daniel Mruzek
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Formerly "Abnormal Psychology". Fulfills upper-level writing requirement.
Offered: Spring
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PSYC 283-1 Behavioral Medicine Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Morey Room 321 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
95 		Capacity     
125
Instructors: Marie-Joelle Estrada
Description: An overview of the application of behavior/lifestyle change approaches to the treatment of medical disorders, and the examination of interfaces between behavior and physiology. Topics include diabetes, cardiovascular risk factors, chronic pain, and cancer.

This is a social science course.

Prerequisite: PSYC 101
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 283W-1 Behavioral Medicine Spring 2023 0.5 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Marie-Joelle Estrada
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Fulfills upper-level writing requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 303-1 Teaching Psychology of Motivation Spring 2023 6.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 900 1100 Meliora Room 352 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Christopher Niemiec
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 321-1 Psychology of Religion Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Meliora Room 366 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
14
Instructors: Miron Zuckerman
Description: Why do people believe in God? Are religious people more moral? What are the benefits, if any, of religion? Is religiosity declining and, if so, why? These and other questions related to religion and its effects on human lives will be addressed in this course. This is a discussion seminar. The requirements include weekly readings, preparation for and participation in the discussion, and a final paper that can be theoretical or empirical.

This is a social science course.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 340-1 Depression and Anxiety Seminar Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1640 Meliora Room 352 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Lisa Starr
Description: An in-depth exploration of the nature, etiology, and treatment of anxiety disorders and depression. For example, we will review scientific literature related to classification, epidemiology, psychosocial correlates, biological models, and intervention approaches.

This is a social science course.

Prerequisites: PSYC 101; and either PSYC 280, PSYC 282, or PSYC 289
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 351-1 Research in Developmental Neuropsychology Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Loisa Bennetto
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course provides guided, direct research experiences in developmental neuropsychology, with a particular focus on autism and other developmental disabilities.

This is social science course.
Offered: Fall Spring
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PSYC 372-1 Social Stress Research Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Jeremy Jamieson
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description

This is a social science course.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 376-1 Guided Research in Developmental Psychopathology II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1030 1200 Meliora Room 366 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
40
Instructors: Patrick Davies
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course provides structured participatory experiences in the study of the origins, course, and consequences of typical and atypical human development. Direct experiences assisting with ongoing research on a project affiliated with Mt. Hope Family Center are guided by seminar activities and advanced readings on the theoretical, research, and clinical bases for the first-hand research experiences.
Offered: Spring
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PSYC 381-1 Seminar in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Meliora Room 352 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Loisa Bennetto
Description: This course provides an introduction to the unique characteristics and challenges of individuals with developmental disabilities across the lifespan. We address etiologies, identification, intervention, education, and supports of children and adults with developmental disabilities, including intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder, and others. Historical perspectives and societal issues will be discussed along with current research and practice. The class format includes both lecture and discussion.

This is a social science course.

Prerequisites: PSYC 282 OR PSYC 289
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 381W-1 Seminar in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Spring 2023 0.5 Open
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Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Loisa Bennetto
Description: Fulfills upper-level writing requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 393W-1 Honors Research Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: David Dodell-Feder
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 513-1 Meta-Analysis Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1100 1400 Meliora Room 474 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Bonnie Le
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course covers the general principles, methods, and statistical tests used in meta-analysis. As a seminar and workshop-style class, these aims will be accomplished through weekly readings, student discussion, presentations, and problem-solving in class. The primary goal of each class will be focused on facilitating students in conducting their own meta-analysis. Given its advanced nature, this course is best suited for second-year students and up. To enroll in this course, students should first identify a research question for their meta-analysis and have it approved by the instructor. Additionally, students should aim to retrieve relevant literature for their project by the start of the course.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 517-1 Structural Equation Modeling II Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1100 1330 Meliora Room 352 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Beau Abar
Restrictions: Open to Clinical and Social Psychology students Only - ASE
Description: This course will build upon methods covered in Structural Equation Modeling I by covering advanced topics in SEM including advanced applications for growth modeling, categorical latent variable (mixture) modeling in cross-sectional and longitudinal modeling settings, and growth mixture-modeling.
Offered: Spring
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PSYC 518-1 Statistical Computing With R Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 930 1200 Meliora Room 474 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: David Weissman
Restrictions: Open to Clinical and Social Psychology students Only - ASE
Description: Provides an overview of statistical computing with R, primarily from a tidyverse perspective. Topics include R and RStudio basics, data wrangling and cleaning, visualization and reporting, composing functions and utilizing iteration, statistical modeling (GLM, ANOVA, MLM, SEM, IRT, Bayes) and power analysis, and workflow and communication.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 519-1 Data Analysis II-General Linear Approaches Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1525 1805 Meliora Room 474 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Harry Reis
Restrictions: Open to Clinical and Social Psychology students Only - ASE
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Spring
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PSYC 555-1 Close Relationships Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1300 1515 Meliora Room 474 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Harry Reis
Restrictions: Open to Clinical and Social Psychology students Only - ASE
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 562-1 Developmental Research Methods Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 950 1220 Meliora Room 352 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Patrick Davies
Restrictions: Open to Clinical and Social Psychology students Only - ASE
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Spring
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PSYC 566-1 Neurobiological Foundations Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1700 Meliora Room 366 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: David Dodell-Feder
Restrictions: Open to Clinical and Social Psychology students Only - ASE
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 571-1 Clinical Assessment II Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1700 Meliora Room 466 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Jennifer Aube
Restrictions: Open to Clinical and Social Psychology students Only - ASE
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Spring
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PSYC 576-1 Psychopathology II Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1530 1800 Meliora Room 474 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Thomas O'Connor
Restrictions: Open to Clinical and Social Psychology students Only - ASE
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Spring
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PSYC 585-1 Psychotherapy Practicum II Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Julia Vitale
Restrictions: Open to Clinical and Social Psychology students Only - ASE
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Spring
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PSYC 586-1 Evidence-Based Child Psychotherapy Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1400 1630 Meliora Room 352 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Sheree Toth; Jody Manly
Restrictions: Open to Clinical and Social Psychology students Only - ASE
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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PSYC 591-1 PhD Readings Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Restrictions: Open to Clinical and Social Psychology students Only - ASE
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Religion and Classics
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RELC 102-1 Introduction to the New Testament Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1025 1115 Lechase Room 163 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Anne Merideth
Description: Examination of the texts of the New Testament, as well as other ancient sources, in an attempt to reconstruct a picture of Christianity in its beginnings. We will study the New Testament and the early Jesus movement within the wider context of Second Temple Judaism and the Greco-Roman world. Issues such as the development of the canon, the divisions with the Jesus Movement between Jews and Gentiles, the different understandings of the figure of Jesus, the conflicts which shaped the institutional development of the early church, and the conflict between Rome and the early church will receive particular attention and analysis. We will approach the texts of the New Testament as we would any other texts in antiquity, namely from an historical perspective. Students will be exposed to the traditional tools of biblical scholarship. No previous knowledge of the New Testament or of early Christianity is assumed.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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RELC 103-2 History of Judaism Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Rush Rhees Library Room 442 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: HIST 176-2, JWST 113-2 (P), RELC 103-2
Instructors: Emma Brodeur
Description: This course is an introduction to Jewish religion and culture from ancient to modern times. Designed for students with little or no prior knowledge of Judaism, it will examine the formation, ruptures, and changes of Jewish tradition, identity, and culture beginning with the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible), continuing through Rabbinic interpretations of law and lore, medieval Jewish thought, early modern Jewish mysticism, the Enlightenment and modern Jewish philosophy, up to contemporary American Jewish feminism. Because this course explores a large swath of the history of Judaism, its peoples, and ideas in various geographic contexts, we will continually question the claim that there exists a single, static, essential entity called “Judaism.” Paying close attention to changes in Jewish religious and cultural self-understanding and traditions across primary and secondary texts, we will instead investigate the possibility that there were and are multiple “Judaisms” just as there were and are multiple “Jews” living in different cultural, religious, and geographic settings throughout time.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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RELC 106-1 From Confucius to Zen Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
48
Instructors: Douglas Brooks
Description: This course introduces the religious and intellectual traditions of classical China and Japan, with a particular emphasis on literary sources and the history of ideas.  We begin with the origins of Chinese civilization and proceed chronologically to the development of Chinese Buddhism when we shift our focus to Japan and refocus on Buddhism and the native Shinto Japanese tradition, culmination in the study of Zen.  A special emphasis will be placed on the evolution of ideas leading us literally from Confucius to Zen.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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RELC 108-1 Introduction to the Quran Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Hylan Building Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: John Thibdeau
Description: This course is an academic introduction to the central text of the Islamic tradition – the Qur’an. We will employ a series of lenses through which we can explore and analyze the Qur’an from an academic perspective. Specific topics will include the historical composition of the Quran as a fixed text, traditions of interpretation (hermeneutics), theological and legal debates engendered by the text, poetic and literary aspects of the text, and major themes (e.g., women and gender, pluralism, and jihad). In addition to approaching the Qur’an as a text, we will be looking at its material and performative dimensions and the role it plays in Muslim social life as a component of education. More broadly, this course will explore questions of translation, interpretation, and scripture as they relate to the academic study of religion broadly and Islamic Studies in particular.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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RELC 118-1 What’s so funny?: Stand-Up Comedy and Religion Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1400 1640 Rush Rhees Library Room 428D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
9
Instructors: Cona Marshall
Description: Like the religious leader, the stand-up comedian is attempting to make sense and meaning of the world around us; providing social commentary through their performative stand-up acts on topics like: suffering, healing, evil, community, absurdity, race, gender, ethics and justice. Through the work of stand-up greats like Don Rickles, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Moms Mabley and more contemporary comedians like Seinfeld, Chapelle, Ellen, Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish, this class will examine the question of ‘what’s so funny?’ by examining the cultural and religious discourse of stand-up comedians.  Exploring the role of stand-up comedian by way of cultural roles like the trickster, griot and preacher, this class put the critical thinking of the stand-up in conversation with critical religious, race, and gender scholars. 
Offered: Fall Spring
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RELC 121-1 Bridging the Gap: Dialogue Across Difference Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1815 1945 Interfaith Chapel Room 200 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: CASC 152-1 (P), RELC 121-1
Instructors: Jessica Guzman-Rea; Denise Yarbrough
Description: There is no longer any doubt that we are living in an increasingly polarized world, where civil discourse gives way to invective. The fault lines of race, faith, and politics are exacerbated by a lack of understanding of how these identities become barriers to genuine conversation. Divisive sub-groups serve as echo chambers, cutting us off from talking across the divides.  

“The Bridging the Gap program is designed to combat the toxic polarization in our country, give students the skills they need to find common ground across deep divides, solve problems in their communities, thrive in the workplace of the future, and support students in their own character formation journey” (Interfaith America, 2022). Through these direct engagements and experiences, this community engaged course will teach students how to truly listen, understand, be heard, and seek common ground without attempting to change minds or having to compromise deeply held values. This course will give students the tools to find areas of common ground, live in constructive tension, understand our shared humanity and solve pressing problems with those of different backgrounds and beliefs. 

This course is designed to bring together students from culturally, theologically, politically, and racially diverse backgrounds to create a brave space for courageous conversations and to understand and explore solutions to one of America’s most pressing social problems: The call to defund the police: redefining “public safety” and what police reform might look like as America continues to wrestle with structural racism. This course will offer classroom learning on dialogue skills across political, cultural, and experiential differences, with intensive skill building sessions to practice these dialogue skills during a mandatory weekend retreat from January 13-15, and site visits with a broad range of police and public safety and stakeholders from our campus, the City of Rochester, and the State of New York.  
Offered: Spring
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RELC 130-1 Buddhism: Belief and Practice Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Rush Rhees Library Room 442 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Shin-Yi Chao
Description: This course discusses beliefs, ethics, rituals, and changes in Buddhism over time and geography. In addition to the foundational concepts, we will look into the original form of Buddhism as it is still practiced in Southeast Asia (except for Vietnam) and Mahayana Buddhism, the newer form, in China and its neighboring countries. We will examine the specific regional adaptions of Buddhism, including those in Thailand, China, and the US.
Offered: Fall Spring
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RELC 135-1 Classical Mythology Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
45 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: CLST 110-1 (P), RELC 135-1
Instructors: Nicholas Gresens
Description: Introduction to the mythology of the classical world. We will examine the major myths about the gods, the origins and nature of the universe, and the heroic past, as they developed in the Greek world and as they were adapted in the Roman world. We will consider the nature and function of myth in society, some theoretical approaches to myth, and the way in which myths were adapted by Greek and Roman authors to fit a particular literary or historical context. This course will also devote time to comparing the classical system of myths to other mythological systems.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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RELC 168-1 Religion and Black Pop Music Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Lattimore Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: AAAS 140-1, MUSC 139-1 (P), RELC 168-1
Instructors: Cory Hunter
Description: This course explores the material expression of religious traditions of the AmericasNorth, Central, and South America. Material forms like dance, dress, art, music, and architecture will be considered. In examining these material realities, the course illuminates the role that creative agency plays in the outward materializing of religious doctrines and beliefs. Class format includes lectures, discussions, presentations, and practitioner demonstrations.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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RELC 169-1 Sports, Race and Religion Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Meliora Room 218 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Cona Marshall
Description: While race, religion and sports may not seem to marry, they are not strange bedfellows. Where religion has proven not to be the catalyst for racial reconciliation, sometimes sports has. This class seeks to trace notable historical markers of American race relations through sports and its intersections with religion.  By engaging the biographies of sport legends such as boxers Jack Johnson, Joe Louis and Muhammid Ali, baseballer Jackie Robinson, and tennis goats Author Ash and Serena Williams we will explore an American history of racial and religious plurality.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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RELC 174-2 Chinese Religions Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Meliora Room 218 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CHIN 274-2, RELC 174-2 (P)
Instructors: Shin-Yi Chao
Description: This is a survey course on religious traditions in China covering Buddhist, Daoist, and popular religion, while Confucian theorization and ritualization of ethics will also be included. The course aims at broadening your understanding of religion in general and deepening your conception of China as a cultural entity.
Offered: Fall Spring
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RELC 180-1 Religion and Public Health: Collaboration on the Front Lines Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Interfaith Chapel Room 200 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: PHLT 180-1, RELC 180-1 (P)
Instructors: Denise Yarbrough
Description: This course will examine the intersection of religion/spirituality and public health locally globally and nationally.  Extensive evidence-based research has shown that religion and spirituality have a significant impact on the health of individuals.  More recently researchers have found that religion/spirituality is a social determinant of public health making it a factor that public health practitioners should consider when approaching public health challenges such as responses to pandemics gun violence women’s reproductive health or entrenched political conflicts.  We will survey the research establishing the connection between religion and health/mental health and spend time analyzing a variety of case studies illustrating how they have intersected in real world scenarios.  This is a community engaged course with Common Ground Health joining us as our community partner. Students will be assigned to one of several projects currently being pursued by Common Ground Health working with public health practitioners at that organization to complete projects.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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RELC 183-1 Incarceration Nation Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1025 1115 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
88 		Capacity     
90
Co-Located: AAAS 183-1, HIST 112-1, PSCI 224-1, RELC 183-1 (P)
Instructors: Joshua Dubler
Description: How does a country with five percent of the world's population, a country that nominally values freedom above all else, come to have nearly a quarter of the world's incarcerated people? In this survey course we investigate the history of imprisonment in the United States--as theorized and as practiced--from the founding of the republic to the present day. Special attention is paid to the politics, economics, race politics, and religious logics of contemporary mass incarceration, and to the efforts afoot to end mass incarceration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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RELC 186-1 Ritual and Religion in Archaeological Perspective Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Lechase Room 181 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: ATHS 102-1, RELC 186-1 (P)
Instructors: Stefanie Bautista San Miguel
Description: “Things derive their importance from an immaterial quality, but their materiality indeed matters” (Karlström 2009:186). How does one study the immaterial based on materials from a time long past? This course will introduce students to the topic of religion and ritual from the perspective of archaeology. To this end, students will become familiar with anthropological approaches of religion and then examine how they have influenced the way archaeologists interpret the past. Students will read archaeological case studies from a variety of geographic areas, environments, and time periods that focus on topics such as animism, cosmology, shamanism, witchcraft, ritual, pilgrimage, materiality, and immateriality. At the end of this course, students will have a better understanding of the issues and debates surrounding the study of religion and ritual in archaeology, and how integrating new scientific techniques to changing paradigms in archaeology have contributed to a better understanding of the past.
Offered: Fall Spring
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RELC 230-1 Cultural Politics of Prison Towns Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1400 1640 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: AAAS 200-1, ANTH 233-1 (P), GSWS 233-1, PSCI 225-1, RELC 230-1
Instructors: Kristin Doughty; Joshua Dubler
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Rochester sits in one of the world’s most explicitly carceral landscapes, with more than a dozen state prisons within a 90 min drive. This co-taught course is a collaborative ethnographic research project designed to examine how the presence of prisons in towns around Rochester reflects and shapes the political, economic, and cultural lives of those who live in the region. Students will be introduced to methods and practices of ethnography and conduct firsthand research on the cultural politics of prison towns. Through assigned reading, students will learn about the history, sociology, and cultural logics of Rochester and the wider region, and of mass incarceration. What does a prison mean for a person living near one? How does the presence of prisons shape people’s notions of justice, citizenship, and punishment? How do these nearby but largely invisible institutions shape the ways that we live in Rochester? Recommended prior courses: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology or Incarceration Nation
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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RELC 247-1 Islamic Modernities in Africa Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Frederick Douglass Room 302 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
19
Co-Located: ANTH 251-1, RELC 247-1 (P)
Instructors: John Thibdeau
Description: This course will discuss the encounters of Islam and modernity in African contexts through a combination of historical, textual, and ethnographic studies based in North, East, and West Africa. One of the primary aims of this course is to situate Africa not merely as a site for the reception of Islam and European modernity, but as an integral node in the development of Islamic and Western intellectual, political, and social histories. In addition, we will interrogate the Eurocentric ideas of modernity through its political, epistemological, ethical, technological, and gendered dimensions while also examining the emergence of Islamic modernities, i.e., ways of being Muslim and modern that grew out of encounters on the African continent. In the process, we will engage with issues of colonialism and the formation of nation-states and how those processes gave rise to contemporary geopolitical concerns on the continent. Finally, this course will consider the transnational aspects of Islam in African contexts through the intersecting histories of Islam in America and Africa engendered through the slave trade and transatlantic flows of people and knowledge, as well as African Muslim diasporas in Europe.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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RELC 270-1 The Meaning of Life: Happiness and Liberation in Theory and Practice Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Hylan Building Room 105 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Douglas Brooks
Description: What is happiness?  How should it be pursued? Is happiness the same as liberation?  Is there an “ultimate” human experience?  How does one achieve human fulfillment and how have religions and literary traditions theorized these goals and offered practices for achievement?  Our focus will be on how these questions have been raised particularly in the ancient world and consider them in our own context.  We will read closely and comparatively in Western classical traditions and modernity, from Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist, and Confucian sources to examine the meaning of “the good life”, how happiness is defined and expressed, and to ask what is possible for human beings born as we are in the mortal predicament.  Our considerations will include the Greek’s eudemonia, Buddhist nirvana, Hindu liberation, Confucian and Taoist sageliness, Latin writers such as Seneca and Aurelius as well as American Transcendentalists and even a few contemporary poets and critics.  (We will not be considering views espoused by the three western monotheisms.)  Readings will focus on primary sources, in translation when necessary, and with the goal of formulating our own critical response to the theories and practices espoused.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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RELC 275-1 Psychology, Religion, Ethics, Love Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lattimore Room 413 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: JWST 275-1 (P), RELC 275-1
Instructors: Emma Brodeur
Description: This course invites you to look at and analyze your own dreams, loves, self-doubts, interpersonal conflicts, moral beliefs, and religious practices, and those of people around you, from the perspective of unconscious passions. Drawing on the findings of classical and contemporary psychoanalysts, the course investigates how these thinkers/clinicians explore the unconscious mind and how it influences our beliefs, emotions, and behaviors. We will consider the ways in which these depth psychological theories and modes of self-exploration offer guidance on how to live, what to believe, and how to relate to others.
Offered: Fall Spring
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RELC 287-1 Hildegard of Bingen and Her World Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Dewey Room 1305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: GRMN 217-1, MUSC 207-1 (P), RELC 287-1
Instructors: Honey Meconi
Description: This course explores the life and times of Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179), who was a noted theologian, a major composer and poet, a leader in early scientific and medical writing, the creator of an imaginary language and a new alphabet, a figure in the political life of the twelfth century and the rise of German nationalism in the nineteenth, a possible artist of astonishing iconography, and the only musician to be recognized as both a saint and a Doctor of the Church by the Catholic Church.  The class will examine her many remarkable creations in multiple areas in the context of twelfth-century German history and culture, her reception throughout the more than 800 years since her death, and her role today in popular culture.   No prerequisites.  4 credits. 
Offered: Fall Spring
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RELC 294-1 Ancient Rome in Context Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
16
Co-Located: CLST 294-1 (P), RELC 294-1
Instructors: Nicholas Gresens
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Explore the connections between pagans and Christians in ancient Rome. See how pagan religious, cultural, & architectural trends influenced later Christian traditions. How did the rise of Christianity transform the ancient city and society of Rome?
Offered: Spring
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RELC 325-1 Responding to the Holocaust Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Meliora Room 218 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: JWST 325-1 (P), RELC 325-1
Instructors: Emma Brodeur
Description: This course examines Jewish responses to the Nazi Holocaust. The focus is how Jewish survivors and theologians respond to catastrophic suffering and reinvent Jewish tradition in the process. The central problem is theodicy (the justification of God in relation to suffering) and anti-theodicy (the refusal of religious thinkers to justify or accept the relation between God and suffering). Part 1 explores first- and second-generation survivors’ accounts of the Holocaust with attention to how trauma shapes memory and representation. We then read classical Jewish responses to catastrophic suffering, including Biblical and Rabbinic sources, and compare these to post-Holocaust accounts. Finally, we examine the theological writings of post-Holocaust thinkers and how they reject and reinvent traditional ideas about God, suffering, and Judaism.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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RELC 389W-1 Senior Seminar Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Hylan Building Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: John Thibdeau
Description: This advanced seminar focuses on topics, methods, and theoretical models in the study of religion. Specific subjects are determined on a yearly basis. Restricted to Senior religion majors or by permission of Instructor. Course time will be determined with consultation of enrolled students.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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RELC 390-1 Supervised Teaching for RELC 183 Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
8
Instructors: Joshua Dubler
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Supervised teaching for RELC 183 - Incarceration Nation.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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RELC 390-2 Supervised Teaching for RELC 230 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
3
Instructors: Joshua Dubler
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Supervised teaching for RELC 230 - Cultural Politics of Prison Towns.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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RELC 392-1 Practicum Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Instructors: Aaron Hughes
Description: Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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RELC 393-1 Senior Project Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
1
Instructors: Nora Rubel
Description: A directed, individual study project open to senior concentrators.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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RELC 393W-1 Senior Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
3
Instructors: Anne Merideth
Description: A directed, individual study project open to senior concentrators.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Modern Languages & Cultures - Russian Studies
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
RSST 126-1 Russia Now Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
19
Co-Located: HIST 134-1, RSST 126-1 (P), RSST 127-1, RUSS 126-1, RUSS 127-1
Instructors: Nikita Maslennikov
Description: Students will follow current events in Russia through the internet, newspapers, magazines, and other sources (including satellite broadcasts when available). Along with a general attention to current events, each student will follow a particular area of interest (e.g. national identity, the market economy, politics, health issues, crime, culture, foreign policy) throughout the term, do background work on this topic and write it up towards the end of the term. Students who read Russian will be encouraged to use available sources in that language. This course is designed to (1) familiarize students with the most important issues facing Russia today and the historical/political/cultural context in which to place them; (2) to acquaint students with a variety of resources from the US, Russia, and a number of other countries and the different perspectives these sources may give on one and the same issue. Students write two short essays and one longer research paper.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
RSST 127-1 Russia Now Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1525 1640 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
19
Co-Located: HIST 134-1, RSST 126-1 (P), RSST 127-1, RUSS 126-1, RUSS 127-1
Instructors: Nikita Maslennikov
Description: In this 2-credit version of the 'Russia Now' course, students will follow current events in Russia through the internet, newspapers, magazines, and other sources. Along with a general attention to current events, each student will follow a particular area of interest (e.g. national identity, the market economy, politics, health issues, crime, culture, foreign policy) throughout the term, do background work on this topic and write it up towards the end of the term. Students who read Russian will be encouraged to use available sources in that language. This course is designed to (1) familiarize students with the most important issues facing Russia today and the historical/political/cultural context in which to place them; (2) to acquaint students with a variety of resources from the US, Russia, and a number of other countries and the different perspectives these sources may give on one and the same issue. May be taken twice for credit.
Offered: Fall Spring
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RSST 214-1 Russian Folklore Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
19
Co-Located: CLTR 214R-1 (P), RSST 214-1, RUSS 214-1
Instructors: Nikita Maslennikov
Description: The objective of this course is to explore Russian Folklore in all the wealth and the variety of its forms. We will study Russian Folklore from different perspectives, such as its development in time and space; its social and economic dimensions in Russia; and the historical changes that it underwent. We will explore the full range of folkloric forms, from the riddle to ancient Russian rituals and beliefs to the jokes and folk songs which are an integral part of contemporary social networks and TV shows. Analysis of these narratives and behaviors will allow the students to familiarize themselves with Russian fairy tales and to find their way in the maze of patterns and meanings in the Russian magic world. We will study the oral, visual, musical and folk architectural heritage in contemporary Russia, as well as ways in which Russian Folklore is collected, documented and interpreted by scholars. 
Offered: Spring
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RSST 289-1 Dangerous Texts Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
19
Co-Located: CLTR 289-1 (P), RSST 289-1, RUSS 289-1
Instructors: Anna Maslennikova
Description: When modern Russian literature began to evolve in the mid-1600s, the printed or written text was immediately seen as a potential danger to the power of Church and State. In this course we will examine dangerous texts' from the 17th century to the present to see what aspects of texts and their authors were seen as threats and how these threats were dealt with. We will also see the ways in which writers did indeed perceive themselves as a second government' and how this changed the way they wrote. The reading list will include works by: Avvakum, Radishchev, Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Babel, Mayakovsky, Mandelstam, Pasternak, Yevtushenko, Solzhenitsyn, Voinovich, Grossman, and Sinyavsky/Tertz. The goal of this course is to arrive at an understanding of the unique role played by literature in Russian history. In English.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Modern Languages & Cultures - Russian
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
RUSS 102-1 Elementary Russian II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Frederick Douglass Room 403 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Laura Givens
Description: Continuing introduction to Russian grammar, phonetics, conversation. Emphasis will be on practical Russian language skills. Lectures will combine drilling in Russian with presentations in English. By the end of the semester, students will have been introduced to the fundamental aspects of Russian grammar and lexicon.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
RUSS 126-1 Russia Now Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
19
Co-Located: HIST 134-1, RSST 126-1 (P), RSST 127-1, RUSS 126-1, RUSS 127-1
Instructors: Nikita Maslennikov
Description: Students will follow current events in Russia through the internet, newspapers, magazines, and other sources (including satellite broadcasts when available). Along with a general attention to current events, each student will follow a particular area of interest (e.g. national identity, the market economy, politics, health issues, crime, culture, foreign policy) throughout the term, do background work on this topic and write it up towards the end of the term. Students who read Russian will be encouraged to use available sources in that language. This course is designed to (1) familiarize students with the most important issues facing Russia today and the historical/political/cultural context in which to place them; (2) to acquaint students with a variety of resources from the US, Russia, and a number of other countries and the different perspectives these sources may give on one and the same issue. Students write two short essays and one longer research paper.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
RUSS 127-1 Russia Now Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1525 1640 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
19
Co-Located: HIST 134-1, RSST 126-1 (P), RSST 127-1, RUSS 126-1, RUSS 127-1
Instructors: Nikita Maslennikov
Description: Students will follow current events in Russia through the internet, newspapers, magazines, and other sources (including satellite broadcasts when available). Along with a general attention to current events, each student will follow a particular area of interest (e.g. national identity, the market economy, politics, health issues, crime, culture, foreign policy) throughout the term, do background work on this topic and write it up towards the end of the term. Students who read Russian will be encouraged to use available sources in that language. This course is designed to (1) familiarize students with the most important issues facing Russia today and the historical/political/cultural context in which to place them; (2) to acquaint students with a variety of resources from the US, Russia, and a number of other countries and the different perspectives these sources may give on one and the same issue. Students write two short essays and one longer research paper.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
RUSS 152-1 Intermediate Russian II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 900 950 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
17
Instructors: Laura Givens
Description: Continuation of Intermediate Russian I (RUS 151): building of vocabulary, conversation and comprehension skills; weekly film essays. One recitation per week.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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RUSS 209-1 Advanced Russian Through Film Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Lattimore Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
19
Instructors: Anna Maslennikova
Description: Students cover various topics in grammar and syntax at the advanced level with an emphasis on practical applications. Students will view six widely acclaimed films, which will form the basis for the acquisition of written skills, grammatical accuracy and conversational fluency. Class conducted primarily in Russian.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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RUSS 214-1 Russian Folklore Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
19
Co-Located: CLTR 214R-1 (P), RSST 214-1, RUSS 214-1
Instructors: Nikita Maslennikov
Description: The objective of this course is to explore Russian Folklore in all the wealth and the variety of its forms. We will study Russian Folklore from different perspectives, such as its development in time and space; its social and economic dimensions in Russia; and the historical changes that it underwent. We will explore the full range of folkloric forms, from the riddle to ancient Russian rituals and beliefs to the jokes and folk songs which are an integral part of contemporary social networks and TV shows. Analysis of these narratives and behaviors will allow the students to familiarize themselves with Russian fairy tales and to find their way in the maze of patterns and meanings in the Russian magic world. We will study the oral, visual, musical and folk architectural heritage in contemporary Russia, as well as ways in which Russian Folklore is collected, documented and interpreted by scholars. 
Offered: Fall Spring
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RUSS 215-1 Advanced Russian Literature in Original II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Anna Maslennikova
Description: Reading, composition and conversation for advanced students and heritage speakers of Russian. Class conducted in Russian.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
RUSS 289-1 Dangerous Texts Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
19
Co-Located: CLTR 289-1 (P), RSST 289-1, RUSS 289-1
Instructors: Anna Maslennikova
Description: When modern Russian literature began to evolve in the mid-1600s, the printed or written text was immediately seen as a potential danger to the power of Church and State. In this course we will examine dangerous texts' from the 17th century to the present to see what aspects of texts and their authors were seen as threats and how these threats were dealt with. We will also see the ways in which writers did indeed perceive themselves as a second government' and how this changed the way they wrote. The reading list will include works by: Avvakum, Radishchev, Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Babel, Mayakovsky, Mandelstam, Pasternak, Yevtushenko, Solzhenitsyn, Voinovich, Grossman, and Sinyavsky/Tertz. The goal of this course is to arrive at an understanding of the unique role played by literature in Russian history. In English.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
RUSS 392-1 Practicum Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Description: Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Art & Art History-Studio Arts
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
SART 111-1 Introduction to Drawing Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1930 Sage Arts Center Room 103 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Joshua Enck
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The coursework follows a sequence of studies that introduces basic drawing techniques, media, and composition through observation and analysis. Through a sequence of projects, students will have the opportunity to develop formal artistic skills and spatial relationships while enhancing their conceptual understanding of art as a visual language. Students will work from life and from the imagination to solve visual problems. Evaluation will primarily be based on the quantity and quality of studio production as well as the effort to thoughtfully contribute to critiques and discussions. Both traditional and non-traditional mediums and approaches will be explored. Relevant readings and short papers are to be expected. Not open to seniors. Studio art supplies fee: $75. If the course fills and you would like to be added to the waitlist, fill out the form found at this link: https://www.sageart.center/resources.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SART 114-1 Creating Architecture Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1640 Sage Arts Center Room 103 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: AHST 114-1 (P), SART 114-1
Instructors: Joshua Enck
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Buildings are among the most public, visible, and long lived artifacts that a culture creates.  The built environment serves as both a repository of cultural information and exerts an influence that extends beyond the society that created it.  Architecture is art in a physical, three dimensional reality; it responds to the limitations of technology, design, and space while materializing ideals of aesthetics and beauty.  Famous designers, trained architects, anonymous craftspeople, and laypeople alike create architectural forms. 

This studio art course will introduce the ways in which we design, create, study, and convey architecture.  We will investigate practices of architectural design, history, building craft, and engineering in this class through lectures, research, in-class exercises, and thematic assignments.  The course will culminate with a fully realized design for a small building of your own invention.  This course will challenge you to recognize precedent forms and to create designs of your own, from sketch to 3D model making, that explore basic design elements.  Skills explored in this course can be used to gain a better understanding of the built world around us and pursue further studies in architecture.

This course is open to all majors, and prior architecture study is not required. If the course fills and you would like to be added to the waitlist, fill out the form found at this link: https://www.sageart.center/resources.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SART 121-1 Introduction to Painting Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1025 1305 Sage Arts Center Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Emily Tyman
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Designed to introduce students to the art of painting through a traditional and experimental approach. Through a sequence of projects, students will have the opportunity to practice observational painting skills as well as experiment with a variety of non-traditional media and innovative techniques. This course aims to enhance each students understanding of historical and contemporary painting trends through studio practice and classroom dialogue. Ultimately, students will work toward creating mature visual works that communicate meaning effectively. Your paintings, in addition to their many other functions, will serve as documentation of your artistic and intellectual pursuit. Formal and informal critiques will regularly follow the completion of most projects. Readings and short papers are to be expected. Not open to seniors. Studio art supplies fee: $75. If the course fills and you would like to be added to the waitlist, fill out the form found at this link: https://www.sageart.center/resources.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SART 131-1 Introduction to Sculpture Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1640 Sage Arts Center Room 103 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Annalisa Barron
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: A wide range of materials and techniques from metal and welding to assemblage, from wood to experimental methods and media is explored in the service of three dimensional art making. Investigations of the specific qualities of three dimensional media (i.e. space, form, scale, mass) and how they can convey ideas are made within a contemporary framework. Artworks synthesize a particular choice and use of materials and a concept or expression. It is the aim of this class to develop this synthesis, and in so doing, begin to develop the students' own working creative vocabulary. Not open to seniors. Studio art supplies fee: $75. If the course fills and you would like to be added to the waitlist, fill out the form found at this link: https://www.sageart.center/resources.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SART 141-2 Introduction to Photography Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1305 Sage Arts Center Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: DMST 112-2, SART 141-2 (P)
Instructors: Kirby Pilcher
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This class is an introduction to the basic elements of photography with an emphasis on photography as an interpretive and hybrid medium. The student will develop a series of images using various photographic techniques and formats, such as photograms, collages, and digital processes. The class will explore alternative modes of thinking about the photographic frame and ways of presenting images. In conjunction with their studio projects, students will be exposed to current issues in photography and related media through readings and group discussions. No prior experience in photography is needed to successfully complete this class. Not open to seniors. $75 Studio Fee. If the course fills and you would like to be added to the waitlist, fill out the form found at this link: https://www.sageart.center/resources.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SART 141-3 Introduction to Photography Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1640 Sage Arts Center Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Co-Located: DMST 112-3, SART 141-3 (P)
Instructors: Megan Mette
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This class is an introduction to the basic elements of photography, SLR and DSLR camera, darkroom techniques and alternative digital processes with an emphasis on photography as an interpretive and hybrid medium. The student will be asked to develop series of images using various photographic techniques and formats such as photograms (photography without a camera), collages and digital negatives printed on silver photographic paper. The class will explore alternative modes of thinking about the photographic frame and ways of presenting images. In conjunction to their studio projects, students will be exposed to current issues in photography and related media through readings, screenings and group discussions. No prior experience in photography is needed to successfully complete this class. Not open to seniors. $50 Studio Fee. If the course fills and you would like to be added to the waitlist, fill out the form found at this link: https://www.sageart.center/resources
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SART 151-1 New Media and Emerging Practices 1 Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1930 Sage Arts Center Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: DMST 111-1, FMST 205-1, SART 151-1 (P)
Instructors: Andrew Salomone
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course merges contemporary art production with technologies and social interventions. Students will combine historical, inter-media approaches with new, evolving trends in social practice. This course offering uses cyberpunk, a subgenre of science fiction, as a framework for examining contemporary art and media production in both theory and practice. Students will deploy introductory level techniques to create new works at the intersection of art, design, and technology. Not open to seniors. $75 Studio Fee. If the course fills and you would like to be added to the waitlist, fill out the form found at this link: https://www.sageart.center/resources.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SART 181-1 Intro to Printmaking: Relief & Intaglio Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1025 1305 Sage Arts Center Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Mijin Shin
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The coursework introduces relief and intaglio print techniques. By using a variety of materials for matrices, such as PVC, acrylic, wood, draft board, etc., students will not only explore traditional printing processes but also apply emerging printmaking practices to their work. Students exercise research skills to conceptualize their projects. Evaluation is based on the quantity and quality of production as well as the effort made to thoughtfully contribute to critiques and discussions to improve visual problem-solving abilities. Relevant readings and writing of project descriptions are to be expected. Not open to seniors. $75 Studio Art Fee.

If the course fills and you would like to be added to the waitlist, fill out the form found at this link: https://www.sageart.center/resources.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SART 222A-1 Advanced Painting Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1930 Sage Arts Center Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: SART 222A-1 (P), SART 222B-1, SART 222C-1
Instructors: Emily Tyman
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The evolving continuation of painting with serious emphasis on independent proposals, research and production. The broadest examination of painting and related media is expected. Group discussion and individual meetings are on a weekly basis. Permission of instructor only. Studio art supplies fee: $75.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SART 222B-1 Advanced Painting Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1930 Sage Arts Center Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: SART 222A-1 (P), SART 222B-1, SART 222C-1
Instructors: Emily Tyman
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The evolving continuation of painting with serious emphasis on independent proposals, research and production. The broadest examination of painting and related media is expected. Group discussion and individual meetings are on a weekly basis. Permission of instructor only. Studio art supplies fee: $75.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
SART 222C-1 Advanced Painting Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1930 Sage Arts Center Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: SART 222A-1 (P), SART 222B-1, SART 222C-1
Instructors: Emily Tyman
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The evolving continuation of painting with serious emphasis on independent proposals, research and production. The broadest examination of painting and related media is expected. Group discussion and individual meetings are on a weekly basis. Permission of instructor only. Studio art supplies fee: $75.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SART 242A-1 Expanded Photography: Remixes & Collages Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1640 Sage Arts Center Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: SART 242A-1 (P), SART 242B-1, SART 242C-1
Instructors: Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: We will examine and interrogate the multiple roles that photography and related media plays within our cultural moment with an emphasis on hybrid and multidisciplinary approaches to the medium. The class projects will explore screen and print based photographic collage, appropriation, found imagery and remixing. Interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches will be encouraged. In conjunction to their studio projects, students will view, analyze and read about a range of photographic practices and engage in probing discussions. The students will also keep a process journal where research, inspirations, ideas and experimentations will be published weekly. Basic experience with photography / lens-based media is required.  $75.00 Studio Fee.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SART 242B-1 Expanded Photography: Remixes & Collages Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1640 Sage Arts Center Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: SART 242A-1 (P), SART 242B-1, SART 242C-1
Instructors: Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: We will examine and interrogate the multiple roles that photography and related media plays within our cultural moment with an emphasis on hybrid and multidisciplinary approaches to the medium. The class projects will explore screen and print based photographic collage, appropriation, found imagery and remixing. Interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches will be encouraged. In conjunction to their studio projects, students will view, analyze and read about a range of photographic practices and engage in probing discussions. The students will also keep a process journal where research, inspirations, ideas and experimentations will be published weekly. Basic experience with photography / lens-based media is required. $75 Studio Art Fee.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
SART 242C-1 Expanded Photography: Remixes & Collages Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1640 Sage Arts Center Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: SART 242A-1 (P), SART 242B-1, SART 242C-1
Instructors: Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: We will examine and interrogate the multiple roles that photography and related media plays within our cultural moment with an emphasis on hybrid and multidisciplinary approaches to the medium. The class projects will explore screen and print based photographic collage, appropriation, found imagery and remixing. Interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches will be encouraged. In conjunction to their studio projects, students will view, analyze and read about a range of photographic practices and engage in probing discussions. The students will also keep a process journal where research, inspirations, ideas and experimentations will be published weekly. Basic experience with photography / lens-based media is required. $75 Studio Art Fee
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SART 262A-1 Advanced Video: Mind Society Environment Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1640 Sage Arts Center Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: DMST 221-1, EHUM 255-1, FMST 257-1, SART 262A-1 (P), SART 262B-1, SART 262C-1
Instructors: Cary Adams
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: "It’s not climate change—it’s everything change," novelist Margaret Atwood has said. This course uses video and moving image to examine the deep intertwined and intersectional roots of the ecological crisis, from viral pandemics and racial justice to the disruption of our climate and all the other apocalyptic scenarios we currently find ourselves in. To guide our development of eco-cinematic consciousness, we will study the works of Kenyan activist Mangari Maathai, Native American (Chickasaw) writer Linda Hogan, and French philosopher Félix Guattari's foundational text, The Three Ecologies, to understand how ecologies of mind, media, and environment are interrelated and to complicate our understandings of "nature." Student Projects will involve installation, single-channel, sound, and networked-based approaches. Works will be examined within a critical environmental arts framework through readings, critiques, viewings and discussions. Permission of instructor. $75 studio fee. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
SART 262B-1 Advanced Video: Mind Society Environment Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1640 Sage Arts Center Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: DMST 221-1, EHUM 255-1, FMST 257-1, SART 262A-1 (P), SART 262B-1, SART 262C-1
Instructors: Cary Adams
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: "It’s not climate change—it’s everything change," novelist Margaret Atwood has said. This course uses video and moving image to examine the deep intertwined and intersectional roots of the ecological crisis, from viral pandemics and racial justice to the disruption of our climate and all the other apocalyptic scenarios we currently find ourselves in. To guide our development of eco-cinematic consciousness, we will study the works of Kenyan activist Mangari Maathai, Native American (Chickasaw) writer Linda Hogan, and French philosopher Félix Guattari's foundational text, The Three Ecologies, to understand how ecologies of mind, media, and environment are interrelated and to complicate our understandings of "nature." Student Projects will involve installation, single-channel, sound, and networked-based approaches. Works will be examined within a critical environmental arts framework through readings, critiques, viewings and discussions. Permission of instructor. $75 studio fee. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
SART 262C-1 Advanced Video: Mind Society Environment Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1640 Sage Arts Center Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: DMST 221-1, EHUM 255-1, FMST 257-1, SART 262A-1 (P), SART 262B-1, SART 262C-1
Instructors: Cary Adams
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: "It’s not climate change—it’s everything change," novelist Margaret Atwood has said. This course uses video and moving image to examine the deep intertwined and intersectional roots of the ecological crisis, from viral pandemics and racial justice to the disruption of our climate and all the other apocalyptic scenarios we currently find ourselves in. To guide our development of eco-cinematic consciousness, we will study the works of Kenyan activist Mangari Maathai, Native American (Chickasaw) writer Linda Hogan, and French philosopher Félix Guattari's foundational text, The Three Ecologies, to understand how ecologies of mind, media, and environment are interrelated and to complicate our understandings of "nature." Student Projects will involve installation, single-channel, sound, and networked-based approaches. Works will be examined within a critical environmental arts framework through readings, critiques, viewings and discussions. Permission of instructor. $75 studio fee. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SART 279-1 Gallery Practicum Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 900 1140 Sage Arts Center Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
6
Co-Located: AHST 231-1 (P), SART 279-1
Instructors: Megan Scheffer
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This class will consider the relationship of art exhibition and production in contemporary art practices as part of a gallery practicum. This course is an introduction to art exhibition practices including research, curation, planning, art handling, installation, and hands-on experience in galleries. Students will install exhibitions in the teaching galleries and spaces on campus, including (but not limited to) Hartnett Gallery and Frontispace Gallery. Students will visit galleries and museums and attend exhibition openings, studio visits, and artist lectures. Studio Art Fee of $75.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
SART 292A-1 Markings, Methods & Materials Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1220 Sage Arts Center Room 103 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: SART 292A-1 (P), SART 292B-1, SART 292C-1
Instructors: Annalisa Barron
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course explores of the boundaries of conventional studio production through experimentation with nontraditional materials and invented approaches. It investigates the act of making a mark and probes the motives and impulses inherent in that process. The projects demand formal consideration as well as thoughtful content; along with class participation, they act as documents of an engagement in creative thought, research, and problem-solving. Individual and group critiques occur throughout the course. Markings, Methods, and Materials can be viewed as an extension of any 100-level studio course and provides an opportunity to exercise and explore the techniques and cognitive processes that are utilized and applied in art production and adjacent fields of learning. Permission of instructor required. Studio art supplies fee: $75.00.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SART 292B-1 Markings, Methods & Materials Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1220 Sage Arts Center Room 103 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: SART 292A-1 (P), SART 292B-1, SART 292C-1
Instructors: Annalisa Barron
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course explores of the boundaries of conventional studio production through experimentation with nontraditional materials and invented approaches. It investigates the act of making a mark and probes the motives and impulses inherent in that process. The projects demand formal consideration as well as thoughtful content; along with class participation, they act as documents of an engagement in creative thought, research, and problem-solving. Individual and group critiques occur throughout the course. Markings, Methods, and Materials can be viewed as an extension of any 100-level studio course and provides an opportunity to exercise and explore the techniques and cognitive processes that are utilized and applied in art production and adjacent fields of learning. Permission of instructor required. Studio art supplies fee: $75.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SART 292C-1 Markings, Methods & Materials Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1220 Sage Arts Center Room 103 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: SART 292A-1 (P), SART 292B-1, SART 292C-1
Instructors: Annalisa Barron
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course explores of the boundaries of conventional studio production through experimentation with nontraditional materials and invented approaches. It investigates the act of making a mark and probes the motives and impulses inherent in that process. The projects demand formal consideration as well as thoughtful content; along with class participation, they act as documents of an engagement in creative thought, research, and problem-solving. Individual and group critiques occur throughout the course. Markings, Methods, and Materials can be viewed as an extension of any 100-level studio course and provides an opportunity to exercise and explore the techniques and cognitive processes that are utilized and applied in art production and adjacent fields of learning. Permission of instructor required. Studio art supplies fee: $75.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SART 300-1 Art New York New Field Studio Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Heather Layton
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The Art New York Field Studio course will utilize the resources of New York City as a starting point for creative production. The course will be conducted primarily online, with face-to-face meetings with the professor spread throughout the semester. Projects will take students outside into the city to make art with a rotating variety of media, including photography, video, sound, and installation, with an emphasis on collaboration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SART 305K-1 Art New York Colloquim Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Heather Layton
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: As an integral part of the internship program, all students participating in ANY will meet weekly with the program's resident director. The class will visit museums, art galleries, film & media screenings, & learn from these visits through readings, papers, presentations & discussions. The colloquium will also serve to provide an intellectual framework for understanding the operations of the NY art world & to allow students to discuss with one another their experiences at the various institutions where they intern. Each student will be expected to make a presentation about their internship to the ANY group. There will be an entrepreneurial component which will introduce the students to a wide variety of entrepreneurial activity & innovative practices within arts and culture. Through guest speakers, seminars & field trips the students will learn how entrepreneurial endeavors develop. By the end of the semester, the students will create their own proposal for an entrepreneurial project.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SART 390-4 Supervised Teaching - SART 181 Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Mijin Shin
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
SART 392-1 Practicum Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
5
Description: Each student will intern in an institution arranged or approved by the Art and Art History faculty. The purpose of this internship is to give students an insiders' view of the workings of the art world. Students will be expected to document their internship experiences as a means of evaluation at the end of the semester. This program is limited to second, third, fourth and fifth year undergraduate students interested in learning about all aspects of contemporary art, about how art gets made, how it reaches its public, and the processes of its interpretation. Internships will consist of 20 hours per week, for which students will receive eight credits. Permission of instructor required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SART 392-2 Studio Art Internship Spring 2023 5.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Nile Blunt
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
SART 392A-1 Practicum - Art NY Spring 2023 8.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Heather Layton
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Each student will intern in an institution arranged or approved by the Art and Art History faculty. The purpose of this internship is to give students an insiders' view of the workings of the art world. Students will be expected to document their internship experiences as a means of evaluation at the end of the semester. This program is limited to second, third, fourth and fifth year undergraduate students interested in learning about all aspects of contemporary art, about how art gets made, how it reaches its public, and the processes of its interpretation. Internships will consist of 20 hours per week, for which students will receive eight credits. Permission of instructor required.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
SART 397-1 Senior Studio & Seminar Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Sage Arts Center Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Mijin Shin; Sarah Webb (Affiliate)
Restrictions: Only open to seniors in Studio arts
Description: This course is designed to support the transition between undergraduate coursework in the arts and independent, professional, and post-graduate pursuits. The course has three essential components: (1) Studio Production and Critique, (2) the Mechanics of the Profession, and (3) Contemporary Artists and Issues as they relate to Visual and Cultural Theory, Art History, and Art Criticism. By the end of the semester, students will have prepared an artist talk on their work through documentation, explanation, reference, and relevance in the context of contemporary art. This class is limited to and required of senior studio majors. Permission of instructor required. Studio art supplies fee: $50.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
SART 399-1 Senior Thesis Exhibition Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1640 Sage Arts Center Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Mijin Shin
Restrictions: Only open to seniors in Studio arts
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Study Abroad
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
SABR 293-1 Rochester in Arezzo Italy Sem Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
12
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SABR 301-2 Study Abroad UR Program Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
62 		Capacity     
70
Instructors: Theodore Pagano
Description: This registration is for students who are participating in a Rochester sponsored program.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SABR 302-2 Study Abroad Non-UR Program Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
10
Description: Registration is for students participating in non-Rochester programs approved by the Center for Education Abroad.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Sociology
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
SOCI 210-1 Silicon Valley and Its Networks Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1650 1930 Morey Room 321 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Thomas Smith; David Silon (Terminated)
Description: SOC210 is a dynamic and practical class open to all entrepreneurially-minded undergraduates. It examines the evolution of Silicon Valley and the foundations of Entrepreneurship and cultivates a deep understanding of Networks as a primary, organizing principle in social and entrepreneurial systems. SOC210 emphasizes student individuality, analytical thinking and intellectual synthesis while exploring contemporary and provocative topics in Entrepreneurship. Topics include: the Titans of Technology (Apple, Meta, Alphabet, et. al.) and corporate culture; the rise of AI and its social impact; human attachment and synchronization as the basis for entrepreneurial networks and product cycles; the Metaverse, AR/VR, and fabricated realities; Competition, Customers, Complexity and Catastrophes!; and Economics, Markets, and Crypto/Blockchains. Students will hear from guest speakers and build confidence through active participation in class exercises, especially individual/group projects and presentations. SOC210 provides students with a broad entrepreneurial skillset and tactical job market preparation.

NOTE: SOC210 is a core class for students enrolled in UR’s e5 program. SOC212 is a related class and may be taken concurrently.
Offered: Spring
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SOCI 212-1 Silicon Valley Sandbox Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1650 1830 Gavett Hall Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Thomas Smith; David Silon (Terminated)
Description: Do you want to be a better entrepreneur and learn how to think on your feet? Are you looking for a novel and interactive academic experience? Come play in our Silicon Valley Sandbox! SOC212 is a stand-alone class open to all students and focuses on practicing real-world entrepreneurial skills. Students will engage in fun and challenging exercises including business role-playing, pitch games, improv, networking, and various types of mock interviews and meetings. The class will also offer a forum for students to prepare for upcoming entrepreneurial competitions and practice pitching to an audience of their peers and professorial coaches. Be the fish or the shark! Bring your creativity, individuality and motivation and leave with newfound entrepreneurial skill and confidence!

NOTE: SOC212 is a core class for students enrolled in UR’s e5 program. SOC210 is a related class and may be taken concurrently.
Offered: Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Modern Languages & Cultures - Spanish
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
SPAN 101-1 Elementary Spanish I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 900 950 Genesee Hall Room 308 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Michelle Brown
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Intended for students with no background in Spanish, or whose background does not make placement in a higher-level Spanish course advisable. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION SPAN101-2. Training in speaking, comprehension, reading and writing through classroom instruction and recitation periods. Students must also register for the associated recitation section. Two or three exams; daily assignments.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SPAN 101-3 Elementary Spanish I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1400 1450 Lattimore Room 431 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
17 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Raquel Alfaro
Description: Intended for students with no background in Spanish, or whose background does not make placement in a higher-level Spanish course advisable. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION SPAN101-4. Training in speaking, comprehension, reading and writing through classroom instruction and recitation periods. Students must also register for the associated recitation section. Two or three exams; daily assignments.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SPAN 102-1 Elementary Spanish II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1025 1115 Genesee Hall Room 308 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Michelle Brown
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Spanish 102 continues the work of the beginning course Spanish 101. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION SPAN102-5. There is added emphasis on reading comprehension, vocabulary building and culture. Students must also register for the associated recitation session. Two or three exams; daily assignments.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SPAN 102-2 Elementary Spanish II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 900 950 Frederick Douglass Room 403 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Kirt Komocki
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Spanish 102 continues the work of the beginning course Spanish 101. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION SPAN102-4. There is added emphasis on reading comprehension, vocabulary building and culture. Students must also register for the associated recitation session. Two or three exams; daily assignments.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SPAN 102-3 Elementary Spanish II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1400 1450 Frederick Douglass Room 404 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Michelle Brown
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Spanish 102 continues the work of the beginning course Spanish 101. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER FOR SPAN 102-6. There is added emphasis on reading comprehension, vocabulary building and culture. Students must also register for the associated recitation session. Two or three exams; daily assignments.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SPAN 151-1 Intermediate Spanish I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Goergen Hall Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Luisa-Maria Rojas-Rimachi
Description: Continuing study of modern Spanish in its spoken and written forms. Emphasis is given to cultural and literary readings and discussions, as well as composition- writing skills and Multimedia Center activities. Two exams; several compositions and rewrites.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SPAN 151-2 Intermediate Spanish I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Meliora Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Luisa-Maria Rojas-Rimachi
Description: Continuing study of modern Spanish in its spoken and written forms. Emphasis is given to cultural and literary readings and discussions, as well as composition- writing skills and Multimedia Center activities. Two exams; several compositions and rewrites.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
SPAN 152-1 Intermediate Spanish II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Meliora Room 224 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Kirt Komocki
Description: Continuation of SP 151. Intended to advance conversational skills and refine writing skills through cultural and literary readings, discussions, and Multimedia Center assignments. Two exams; several compositions and rewrites.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SPAN 152-2 Intermediate Spanish II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Bausch & Lomb Room 315 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Kirt Komocki
Description: Continuation of SPAN 151. Intended to advance conversational skills and refine writing skills through cultural and literary readings, discussions, and Multimedia Center assignments. Two exams; several compositions and rewrites.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SPAN 152-3 Intermediate Spanish II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Lattimore Room 413 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Luisa-Maria Rojas-Rimachi
Description: Continuation of SP 151. Intended to advance conversational skills and refine writing skills through cultural and literary readings, discussions, and Multimedia Center assignments. Two exams; several compositions and rewrites.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SPAN 152-4 Intermediate Spanish II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Frederick Douglass Room 420 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Kirt Komocki
Description: Continuation of SP 151. Intended to advance conversational skills and refine writing skills through cultural and literary readings, discussions, and Multimedia Center assignments. Two exams; several compositions and rewrites.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
SPAN 161-1 Advanced Spanish Grammar Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Dewey Room 4162 01/11/2023 03/02/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Luisa-Maria Rojas-Rimachi
Description: PREREQUISITE: SPAN 152. An in-depth review of key aspects of Spanish grammar and syntax. Builds on students' previous knowledge of Spanish grammar to consider in more detail topics including the indicative and subjunctive moods, ser and estar, the infinitive, prepositions, and the use of gerunds, among other topics. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the material through a variety of practical written exercises. Not for major or minor credit. Not open to students who have taken or are currently enrolled in Span 200.  This course runs from 1/11/23 to 3/2/2023. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
SPAN 162-1 Advanced Conversational Spanish Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Dewey Room 4162 03/06/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Luisa-Maria Rojas-Rimachi
Description: PREREQUISITE SPAN 152. Targeted topics serve to develop oral communication skills, phonetic and linguistic accuracy, effective communication, and vocabulary building. Students expected to use Spanish exclusively and to apply grammatical concepts learned in previous study of the language. Open to students with intermediate knowledge of Spanish grammar and vocabulary. This course is NOT appropriate for Spanish speakers already fluent in the language. Not for major or minor credit. Not open to students who have taken or are currently enrolled in Span 200.  This course runs from 3/6/23 to 5/7/23. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
SPAN 200-1 Advanced Spanish Composition Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Lechase Room 161 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Raquel Alfaro
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course is designed to refine the student's writing and reading skills in Spanish in preparation for entering upper-level Spanish courses. The class time and the assignments are divided between developing composition - writing skills, a variety of readings in Hispanic literature, and some review of grammatical structures. Two exams; four or five compositions and rewrites. Class taught in Spanish.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SPAN 200-2 Advanced Spanish Composition Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Frederick Douglass Room 302 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
13
Instructors: Claudia Schaefer
Description: This course is designed to refine the student's writing and reading skills in Spanish in preparation for entering upper-level Spanish courses. The class time and the assignments are divided between developing composition - writing skills, a variety of readings in Hispanic literature, and some review of grammatical structures. Two exams; four or five compositions and rewrites. Class taught in Spanish.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SPAN 200-3 Advanced Spanish Composition Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 413 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
12
Instructors: Raul Rodriguez-Hernandez
Description: This course is designed to refine the student's writing and reading skills in Spanish in preparation for entering upper-level Spanish courses. The class time and the assignments are divided between developing composition - writing skills, a variety of readings in Hispanic literature, and some review of grammatical structures. Two exams; four or five compositions and rewrites. Class taught in Spanish.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SPAN 203-1 Representing Identities in the Early Modern Hispanic World Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Morey Room 502 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Ryan Prendergast
Description: This course explores the construction of various identities in the pre-18th century Hispanic World. Through the close reading of poetic, narrative, and dramatic texts alongside a selection of historical/archival documents, we will attempt to understand how and why characters (e.g., Don Juan) and historical figures (e.g., Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz) represent, challenge, and/or negotiate different subject positions. We will pay particular attention to how the discourses of class, gender, race, and religion influence both fictional texts and historical contexts. Other themes discussed will include: transvestism, prostitution, the body, courtly love, and love sickness.  In Spanish. Pre-requisite SPAN 200.
Offered: Fall Spring
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SPAN 249D-1 Bunuel, Dali, Lorca Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: SPAN 249D-1 (P), SPAN 449D-1
Instructors: Claudia Schaefer
Description: This course explores Surrealism and Spain, from the 1920s on, embedding cutting-edge works in broader questions of identity and possible threats to an emerging nation in a continent, a world, and an ethos caught between tradition and modernity. Includes films, art, essays, plays, poetry. Course taught in Spanish.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SPAN 275-1 Marx and Freud in Latin America Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Morey Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
18
Instructors: Raul Rodriguez-Hernandez
Description: Prerequisite SPAN 200. This course examines the ongoing influence of writings by Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud on Latin American intellectuals and societies. Key theoretical frameworksclass, inequality, power, social agency, psychoanalysis and subjectivityhave elicited a variety of responses anchored in specific Latin American cultural and historical circumstances. We explore creative practices and cultural products from such encounters, ranging from short stories to novels, from plays to films, and from murals and public art to popular genres. We begin by reading foundational texts by Marx and Freud, then documents revealing how Latin America captured their imagination. Course is taught in Spanish. Most readings in Spanish, some in English.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SPAN 282-1 Si el Norte fuera el Sur: Latinx Literature and Thought Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Lechase Room 103 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AAAS 208-1, GSWS 282-1, SPAN 282-1 (P), SPAN 482-1
Instructors: Vialcary Crisostomo
Description: How is Latinx identity expressed? What historical events have marked its social and cultural

articulation? These questions will guide the work of this course, as we discuss the historical and contemporary discourses that have shaped the lives and sociopolitical agency of Latinxs in the United States. Departing from the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s mission of Shifting the Geography of Reason, we will explore the tensions and dynamics involved in Latinx author’s thought and cultural productions. Through the analysis of literary and philosophical texts, as well as historical data and policies, we will examine projects and practices that work towards the decolonization of Power, Being and Knowledge.  Course offered in English. May be taken for Spanish credit (if writing assignments done in Spanish; prerequisite for Spanish enrollment is SPAN 200)

Readings may include works by Gloria Anzaldua, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Valeria Luiselli, Eduardo Halfon, Elizabeth Acevedo, Gabby Rivera, María Lugones
Offered: Fall Spring
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SPAN 392-1 Practicum Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Description: Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SPAN 393-1 Senior Project Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
15
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SPAN 449D-1 Bunuel, Dali, Lorca Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 401 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: SPAN 249D-1 (P), SPAN 449D-1
Instructors: Claudia Schaefer
Description: In the decades preceding the Civil War, Spanish avant gardes are represented by three larger-than-life figures: exiled film director Luis Buuel, obsessed with the feminine, with his homeland and its supposedly eternal myths; Federico Garca Lorca, poet and playwright of Andaluca and its mythified past, assassinated on the eve of the conflict; and Salvador Dal who lives the tenets of both Surrealism and capitalism in the flesh.Each leaves a legacy that extends beyond the borders of Spain and beyond the end of the twentieth century. This course explores Surrealism and Spain, from the 1920s on, embedding cutting-edge works in broader questions of identity and possible threats to an emerging nation in a continent, a world, and an ethos caught between tradition and modernity. Includes films, art, essays, plays, poetry. Course taught in Spanish.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SPAN 482-1 Si el Norte fuera el Sur: Latinx Literature and Thought Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Lechase Room 103 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AAAS 208-1, GSWS 282-1, SPAN 282-1 (P), SPAN 482-1
Instructors: Vialcary Crisostomo
Description: How is Latinx identity expressed? What historical events have marked its social and cultural

articulation? These questions will guide the work of this course, as we discuss the historical and contemporary discourses that have shaped the lives and sociopolitical agency of Latinxs in the United States. Departing from the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s mission of Shifting the Geography of Reason, we will explore the tensions and dynamics involved in Latinx author’s thought and cultural productions. Through the analysis of literary and philosophical texts, as well as historical data and policies, we will examine projects and practices that work towards the decolonization of Power, Being and Knowledge.  Course offered in English. May be taken for Spanish credit (if writing assignments done in Spanish; prerequisite for Spanish enrollment is SPAN 200)

Readings may include works by Gloria Anzaldua, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Valeria Luiselli, Eduardo Halfon, Elizabeth Acevedo, Gabby Rivera, María Lugones
Offered: Fall Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Statistics
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
STAT 201-1 Intro to Probability Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
67 		Capacity     
70
Co-Located: MATH 201-1 (P), STAT 201-1
Instructors: Joshua Sumpter
Description: Cross Listed: MTH 201 (P), STT 201

Prerequisites: MTH 162 or equivalent, MTH 164 recommended. Same as STT 201.

Description: Probability spaces; combinatorial problems; random variables and expectations; discrete and continuous distributions; generating functions; independence and dependence; binomial, normal, and Poisson laws; laws of large numbers. MTH 162 (or equivalent) is a strict prerequisite and must be completed before taking 201. MTH 162 and 201 cannot be taken concurrently.This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time.
Offered: Fall Spring
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STAT 201-2 Intro to Probability Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
79 		Capacity     
95
Co-Located: MATH 201-2 (P), STAT 201-2
Instructors: Sevak Mkrtchyan
Description: Cross Listed: MTH 201 (P), STT 201

Prerequisites: MTH 162 or equivalent, MTH 164 recommended. Same as STT 201.

Description: Probability spaces; combinatorial problems; random variables and expectations; discrete and continuous distributions; generating functions; independence and dependence; binomial, normal, and Poisson laws; laws of large numbers. MTH 162 (or equivalent) is a strict prerequisite and must be completed before taking 201. MTH 162 and 201 cannot be taken concurrently.This course uses the Tuesday/Thursday 08:00-09:30am Common Exam time.
Offered: Fall Spring
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STAT 203-1 Intro to Math Statistics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Lattimore Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
62 		Capacity     
90
Co-Located: MATH 203-1, STAT 203-1 (P)
Instructors: Javier Bautista
Description: Cross Listed: MTH 203 (P), STT 203

Prerequisites: MTH 201

Description: Discrete and continuous probability distributions and their properties. Principle of statistical estimation and inference. Point and interval estimation. Maximum likelihood method for estimation and inference. Tests of hypotheses and confidence intervals, contingency tables, and related topics.
Offered: Fall Spring
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STAT 212-1 Applied Statistics I Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Hoyt Hall Room 104 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
112 		Capacity     
110
Instructors: Katherine Grzesik
Description: Class Info: YOU MUST REGISTER FOR A WORKSHOP WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN COURSE.

Description: This course is a non-calculus based introduction to statistical methodology and analyses that focuses on providing students with the tools and computational experience needed to analyze data in the applied setting. Topics to be covered include data collection through experiments and observational studies, numerical and graphical data summarization, basic probability rules, statistical distributions, parameter estimation, and methods of statistical inference, regression analysis, ANOVA, and contingency tables. Applications are taken from the social and natural sciences. Calculations are performed with statistical software such as R/RStudio. Students may earn degree credit for only one of these courses: STT211, STT212, STT213, and BIO/STT214. This course is recommended for students majoring/minoring in statistics and students in the social and natural sciences looking for an applied statistics course that can be used as a foundation for upper-level methodology courses
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
STAT 212-2 Applied Statistics I Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Dewey Room 1101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
85 		Capacity     
85
Instructors: Aruni Jayathilaka
Description: Class Info: YOU MUST REGISTER FOR A WORKSHOP WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN COURSE.

Description: This course is a non-calculus based introduction to statistical methodology and analyses that focuses on providing students with the tools and computational experience needed to analyze data in the applied setting. Topics to be covered include data collection through experiments and observational studies, numerical and graphical data summarization, basic probability rules, statistical distributions, parameter estimation, and methods of statistical inference, regression analysis, ANOVA, and contingency tables. Applications are taken from the social and natural sciences. Calculations are performed with statistical software such as R/RStudio. Students may earn degree credit for only one of these courses: STT211, STT212, STT213, and BIO/STT214. This course is recommended for students majoring/minoring in statistics and students in the social and natural sciences looking for an applied statistics course that can be used as a foundation for upper-level methodology courses
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
STAT 212-3 Applied Statistics I Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Dewey Room 1101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
85 		Capacity     
85
Instructors: Aruni Jayathilaka
Description: Class Info: YOU MUST REGISTER FOR A WORKSHOP WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN COURSE.

Description: This course is a non-calculus based introduction to statistical methodology and analyses that focuses on providing students with the tools and computational experience needed to analyze data in the applied setting. Topics to be covered include data collection through experiments and observational studies, numerical and graphical data summarization, basic probability rules, statistical distributions, parameter estimation, and methods of statistical inference, regression analysis, ANOVA, and contingency tables. Applications are taken from the social and natural sciences. Calculations are performed with statistical software such as R/RStudio. Students may earn degree credit for only one of these courses: STT211, STT212, STT213, and BIO/STT214. This course is recommended for students majoring/minoring in statistics and students in the social and natural sciences looking for an applied statistics course that can be used as a foundation for upper-level methodology courses
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
STAT 213-1 Elements Prob & Math Stat Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Goergen Hall Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
120 		Capacity     
120
Instructors: Maria McDermott
Description: Class Info: YOU MUST REGISTER FOR A WORKSHOP WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN COURSE.

Prerequisites: MTH 141 or equivalent.

Description: This course is an introduction to statistical methodology, focusing on the probability and statistical theory underlying the estimation of parameters and testing of hypotheses. Students are exposed to basic data exploration, summarization of graphical display of data, axioms of probability, distributions and related theory, parameter estimation, and statistical inference. Advanced topics include linear correlation and regression analysis. Students will perform calculations with statistical software such as R/RStudio. Please note that, because of the significant overlap between them, students may earn credit for only one of these courses: STT 211, STT 212, STT 213, or BIO/STT 214.This course is recommend for students majoring in Statistics, Economics, or Computer Science, or students looking for a mathematical introduction to statistics who are likely to continue on to other upper-level methodology courses.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
STAT 215-1 Design and Analysis of Experiments Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Hylan Building Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: STAT 215-1 (P), STAT 415-2
Instructors: Javier Bautista
Description: Pre-requisites: STAT 212 or Equivalent

Co-Located: STAT 415

This course will start with an introduction to the scientific method and good practices in experimental design. It will cover a review of point estimation, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing material covered in an introductory statistics course. It will proceed to cover the different experimental designs (Completely Randomized Design, Full Factorial, Central Composite Design, 2k, Fractional Factorial, Screening Designs). The analysis of the data from each design will also be covered using computer software packages.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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STAT 216-1 Applied Statistical Methods I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Morey Room 525 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
44 		Capacity     
45
Instructors: Nicholas Zaino
Description: Prerequisites: STT 211, STT 212, or STT 213.

Description: STT 216 offers a second course in foundational techniques of statistical analyses, focusing on advanced inference topics (power, inference for variances and correlations, nonparametric testing, exact binomial tests, violations of assumptions), regression modeling (OLS regression, multiple regression, model diagnostics, outlier analysis, transformations, variable selection, logistic models), and analysis of variance (1- and 2-way ANOVA, contrasts, multiple comparisons, analysis of covariance). This course is non-calculus based and will focus on the practical use of statistical techniques for data analyses rather than on theory. As such, this course will rely upon the use of statistical software as a tool for examining data and compiling results into presentable reports.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
STAT 216-2 Applied Statistical Methods I Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
35 		Capacity     
35
Instructors: Aruni Jayathilaka
Description:

Prerequisites: STT 211, STT 212, or STT 213.

Description: STT 216 offers a second course in foundational techniques of statistical analyses, focusing on advanced inference topics (power, inference for variances and correlations, nonparametric testing, exact binomial tests, violations of assumptions), regression modeling (OLS regression, multiple regression, model diagnostics, outlier analysis, transformations, variable selection, logistic models), and analysis of variance (1- and 2-way ANOVA, contrasts, multiple comparisons, analysis of covariance). This course is non-calculus based and will focus on the practical use of statistical techniques for data analyses rather than on theory. As such, this course will rely upon the use of statistical software as a tool for examining data and compiling results into presentable reports.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
STAT 217-1 Applied Statistical Methods II Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Morey Room 502 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Nicholas Zaino
Description:
Co-located: STAT 417, STAT 217
Prerequisites: STAT 216.
Description: STAT 217 offers an advanced exploration of statistical techniques used for data analyses. The first half of the course will focus on regression, with topics including weighted least squares, polynomial/non-linear models, collinear data, robust regression, time series techniques, and other related modeling topics. In the second half of the course, advanced analysis of variance (ANOVA) techniques will be explored, focusing mainly on repeated measures, mixed models, multivariate ANOVA, and nonparametric alternatives. Additional topics include structural equation models, missing data, and meta-analysis. This course will focus on the practical use of statistical techniques and will incorporate some basic theory.  
Offered: Spring
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STAT 223-1 Intro to Bayesian Inference Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Hylan Building Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: STAT 223-1 (P), STAT 423-1
Instructors: Joseph Ciminelli
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Co-located: STT 223, STT 423

Prerequisites: STT 203 and MTH 164, or instructor permission.

Description: In this course, the Bayesian approach to statistical inference will be explored. Topics to be discussed include single and multiple parameter models under conjugacy, uninformative and informative prior distribution specifications, hierarchical models, model checking, and modern computational techniques for posterior distribution approximation (e.g. Markov chain Monte Carlo). Basic familiarity with the R computing environment is assumed, as the course includes extensive R programming. Applications will be drawn from across the social and natural sciences, providing a strong foundation for applied data analyses within the Bayesian statistical framework.
Offered: Spring
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STAT 226W-1 Intro to Linear Models Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Dewey Room 2110E 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
35 		Capacity     
35
Instructors: Joseph Ciminelli
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Prerequisites: STAT 211, STAT 212 or 213, and STAT 203 or equivalent.

Description: Simple linear, multiple, and polynomial regression methods and applications; ordinary and generalized least squares, estimation, tests of hypotheses, and confidence intervals, and simultaneous inference. Computing in R. 
Offered: Spring
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STAT 276-1 Statistical Computing in R Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Gavett Hall Room 208 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
45 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: STAT 276-1 (P), STAT 276W-1, STAT 476-1
Instructors: Katherine Grzesik
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Co-located: STT 476, STT 276W-1, STT 276-1

Prerequisites: STT 211, 212, 213, or equivalent.

Description: This course offers an introduction to statistical computing in the R environment. To start, focus is placed on assigning objects, creating data structures, applying Boolean logic, importing and subsetting data, data manipulation (both long and short formats), and implementing elementary commands and built-in functions from R packages. In the second portion of the course, students learn more advanced topics of writing loops, developing functions, building graphics, debugging code, and text mining. Topics will be illustrated using key statistical tools, including basic data summarization and exploration, linear models, and simulations. The course will rely upon the use of R Markdown as an essential tool for effectively integrating R code and output into presentable reports. Basic skills with a text editor (such as Notepad) and Microsoft Excel are assumed, as is basic knowledge of statistical inference.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
STAT 276W-1 Statistical Computing in R Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Gavett Hall Room 208 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
45 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: STAT 276-1 (P), STAT 276W-1, STAT 476-1
Instructors: Katherine Grzesik
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Co-located: STT 476, STT 276W-1, STT 276-1

Prerequisites: STT 211, 212, 213, or equivalent.

Description: This course offers an introduction to statistical computing in the R environment. To start, focus is placed on assigning objects, creating data structures, applying Boolean logic, importing and subsetting data, data manipulation (both long and short formats), and implementing elementary commands and built-in functions from R packages. In the second portion of the course, students learn more advanced topics of writing loops, developing functions, building graphics, debugging code, and text mining. Topics will be illustrated using key statistical tools, including basic data summarization and exploration, linear models, and simulations. The course will rely upon the use of R Markdown as an essential tool for effectively integrating R code and output into presentable reports. Basic skills with a text editor (such as Notepad) and Microsoft Excel are assumed, as is basic knowledge of statistical inference.
Offered: Spring
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STAT 390A-5 Supervised Teaching: STT 203 Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Javier Bautista
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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STAT 390A-6 Supervised Teaching: STT 223 Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Joseph Ciminelli
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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STAT 392-1 Practicum Spring 2023 Lecture Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
0
Description: Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration. STAT 392 - an online independent study form is available at: https://www.rochester.edu/college/ccas/handbook/independent-studies.html
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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STAT 415-2 Design and Analysis of Experiments Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Hylan Building Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: STAT 215-1 (P), STAT 415-2
Instructors: Javier Bautista
Description: Pre-requisites: STAT 212 or Equivalent

Co-Located: STAT 415

This course will start with an introduction to the scientific method and good practices in experimental design. It will cover a review of point estimation, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing material covered in an introductory statistics course. It will proceed to cover the different experimental designs (Completely Randomized Design, Full Factorial, Central Composite Design, 2k, Fractional Factorial, Screening Designs). The analysis of the data from each design will also be covered using computer software packages.
Offered: Spring
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STAT 416-2 Applied Statistical Methods I Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Morey Room 525 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Nicholas Zaino
Description: Co-located with STT 216, STT 416

Prerequisites: STT 211, STT 212, or STT 213.

Description: STT 216 offers a second course in foundational techniques of statistical analyses, focusing on advanced inference topics (power, inference for variances and correlations, nonparametric testing, exact binomial tests, violations of assumptions), regression modeling (OLS regression, multiple regression, model diagnostics, outlier analysis, transformations, variable selection, logistic models), and analysis of variance (1- and 2-way ANOVA, contrasts, multiple comparisons, analysis of covariance). This course is non-calculus based and will focus on the practical use of statistical techniques for data analyses rather than on theory. As such, this course will rely upon the use of statistical software as a tool for examining data and compiling results into presentable reports.
Offered: Fall Spring
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STAT 423-1 Intro to Bayesian Inference Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Hylan Building Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: STAT 223-1 (P), STAT 423-1
Instructors: Joseph Ciminelli
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Co-located: STT 223, STT 423

Prerequisites: STT 203 and MTH 164, or instructor permission.

Description: In this course, the Bayesian approach to statistical inference will be explored. Topics to be discussed include single and multiple parameter models under conjugacy, uninformative and informative prior distribution specifications, hierarchical models, model checking, and modern computational techniques for posterior distribution approximation (e.g. Markov chain Monte Carlo). Basic familiarity with the R computing environment is assumed, as the course includes extensive R programming. Applications will be drawn from across the social and natural sciences, providing a strong foundation for applied data analyses within the Bayesian statistical framework.
Offered: Spring
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STAT 476-1 Statistical Computing in R Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Gavett Hall Room 208 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
45 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: STAT 276-1 (P), STAT 276W-1, STAT 476-1
Instructors: Katherine Grzesik
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Co-located: STT 476, STT 276W-1, STT 276-1

Prerequisites: STT 211, 212, 213, or equivalent.

Description: This course offers an introduction to statistical computing in the R environment. To start, focus is placed on assigning objects, creating data structures, applying Boolean logic, importing and subsetting data, data manipulation (both long and short formats), and implementing elementary commands and built-in functions from R packages. In the second portion of the course, students learn more advanced topics of writing loops, developing functions, building graphics, debugging code, and text mining. Topics will be illustrated using key statistical tools, including basic data summarization and exploration, linear models, and simulations. The course will rely upon the use of R Markdown as an essential tool for effectively integrating R code and output into presentable reports. Basic skills with a text editor (such as Notepad) and Microsoft Excel are assumed, as is basic knowledge of statistical inference.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Sustainability
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
SUST 103-1 Intro to Environmntl Science Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1150 1240 Bausch & Lomb Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
90 		Capacity     
110
Co-Located: EESC 103-1 (P), SUST 103-1
Instructors: Karen Berger
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SUST 112-1 Intro to Public Health Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Morey Room 321 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
116 		Capacity     
120
Co-Located: PHLT 101-1 (P), SUST 112-1
Instructors: Courtney Jones
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Discussion of history and definitions of public health and emerging themes: Public Health Disparities (health and wealth; social justice); Issues in Public Health (lead poisoning; tobacco; obesity; emergency; clean water/air; injury; health systems/reform); and Global Health Issues (globalization and development; maternal and child health).
Offered: Fall Spring
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SUST 114-1 Moral Problems Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Meliora Room 221 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
85 		Capacity     
86
Co-Located: EHUM 103-1, PHIL 103-1 (P), SUST 114-1
Instructors: William FitzPatrick
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: An introduction to moral philosophy as applied to current topics. Some questions to be explored: What sorts of socioeconomic principles are morally justifiable? Does the history of racial injustice in the U.S. create a moral demand for reparations, and if so, what is the best argument for this? What is the relation, if any, between morality and religion? Do animals have moral rights? How should we understand the meaning and value of human life and death? Can abortion sometimes be justified, and if so, how? Is it okay to destroy embryos for stem cell research? Is active euthanasia ever permissible? Is capital punishment justifiable in principle? In practice? Is torture morally permissible in the fight against terrorism? How far does our moral duty to aid distant strangers extend? We will also explore related general questions: Is it always possible for a good enough end to justify bad means? Are there objective facts about right or wrong, or is morality ultimately relative to cultures or times? Are there situations in which every available action is wrong? Can we be morally assessed even for some things that are largely a matter of luck?
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SUST 201-1 Evolution of the Earth Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MWF 1025 1115 Meliora Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
56 		Capacity     
60
Co-Located: EESC 201-1 (P), SUST 201-1
Instructors: Rory Cottrell
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SUST 210-1 Environmental Health Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Morey Room 525 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: PHLT 201W-1 (P), SUST 210-1
Instructors: Edwin VanWijngaarden
Description: This course covers the basic principles used to evaluate the potential human health risk of exposure to environmental contaminants in air, water, and food. Pre-requisites: BIOL 110/112; CHEM 131; PHLT 103 or permission of instructor.
Offered: Spring
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SUST 220-1 Climate Interventions: Performing Arts + New Media Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Rettner Hall Room 307 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
TR 1230 1345 Todd Union Room 107 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: DANC 233-1 (P), DMST 230-1, EHUM 233-1, SUST 220-1
Instructors: Rose Beauchamp; Stephanie Ashenfelder
Description: This humanities course based in the arts combines the study of performing, visual arts and new media with history and theory to convey a breadth of stories about the human experience of climate change. In this interdisciplinary, collaborative course, students will be introduced to the multi-faceted use of the arts in designing for and expressing a vision for a sustainable future. Working with community partners, our research and story collection in the Adirondack park will be used to inspire projects in the course.  Collaboration, design thinking, and the iterative design process will be used to produce performances and art work that respond to the stories of the changing climate in the Adirondack park. It will move through multiple units of theoretical study as students simultaneously work on their creative projects. The course will include an optional trip to the Adirondack Park to engage with our community partners.
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SUST 224-1 Anthropology of Development Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lattimore Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
38 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: ANTH 224-1 (P), SUST 224-1
Instructors: Daniel Reichman
Description: What is progress? Are universal theories of development possible? This course introduces students to major trends in the anthropological study of international development through case studies from around the world. Topics include: indigenous people and development, debates over cultural property and cultural loss, sustainability, and the role of cultural values in economic life.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SUST 233A-1 Climate Change and the African Cultural Heritage Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Lattimore Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AHST 286A-1, ATHS 233A-1 (P), SUST 233A-1
Instructors: William Gblerkpor
Description: This course explores how climate change is causing the loss and damage of cultural heritage sites across Africa. It examines the continent’s cultural landscape heritage and assesses threats and impacts of rising temperatures, wetter climates, rising sea levels, and human migration on the survival and futures of Africa’s past. Africa’s long history of humankind and the peoples encounters with other cultures of the world, have created and shaped a rich and diverse cultural heritage that needs safeguarding
Offered: Spring
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SUST 239-2 Int'l Environmental Law Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Harkness Room 115 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
22
Co-Located: EHUM 239-2, INTR 239-2 (P), PSCI 239-2, SUST 239-2
Instructors: Milena Novy-Marx
Description: An examination of international environmental law and policy with a special focus on efforts to address climate change, including efforts to forge an international climate change agreement at the 2015 United Nations Paris Climate Change Conference. This course serves as a companion to PSC 246, but PSC 246 is not a prerequisite. The goal of this course is to provide a foundational understanding of this rapidly developing, controversial field. Topics include consideration of the scientific, political, and economic drivers of international environmental law; the variety of tools (e.g., treaties, agreements, "soft law," voluntary incentive programs and market based approaches); and examples of how some international environmental issues have been addressed to date. Finally, we will examine the results of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference - are we any closer to a "grand climate solution"? This course will be taught through lectures, discussion, several concise papers, and a group project.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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SUST 304-1 Ecoreps Leaders Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1600 1700 Genesee Hall Room 321 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Karen Berger
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Offered: Fall Spring
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SUST 310-1 Science & Sustainability Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1525 1805 Hylan Building Room 105 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
20 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: EESC 310-1 (P), EESC 310W-1, SUST 310-1
Instructors: Chiara Borrelli
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering TEAM Computer Science
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TCS 440-1 Data Mining Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Dewey Room 1101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
88 		Capacity     
95
Co-Located: CSC 240-1 (P), CSC 440-1, DSCC 240-1, DSCC 440-1, TCS 440-1
Instructors: Thaddeus Pawlicki
Description: Fundamental concepts and techniques of data mining, including data attributes, data visualization, data pre-processing, mining frequent patterns, association and correlation, classification methods, and cluster analysis. Advanced topics include outlier detection, stream mining, and social media data mining. TCS 440, a graduate-level course, requires additional readings and a course project.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TCS 446-1 Machine Learning Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
57 		Capacity     
68
Co-Located: CSC 246-1 (P), CSC 446-1, ECE 409-1, TCS 446-1
Instructors: Adam Purtee
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Mathematical foundations of classification, regression, and decision making. Supervised algorithms covered include perceptrons, logistic regression, support vector machines, and neural networks.  Directed and undirected graphical models.  Numerical parameter optimization, including gradient descent, expectation maximization, and other methods.  Introduction to reinforcement learning. Proofs covered as appropriate.  Significant programming projects will be assigned.

This course involves a lot of math and algorithms.  You should know multivariable calculus,  linear algebra, and some algorithms.   No formal prerequisites but MATH 165, MATH 164, and CSC 242 strongly recommended.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TCS 447-1 Natural Language Processing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Hylan Building Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
47 		Capacity     
48
Co-Located: BCSC 235-1, BCSC 435-1, CSC 247-1 (P), CSC 447-1, LING 247-1, LING 447-1, TCS 447-1
Instructors: Hangfeng He
Description: This course addresses issues of representing computing meaning from natural language, especially issues of understanding language in context using commonsense knowledge of the world. Topics will include a survey of English phrase structure and parsing, semantic representation (e.g., events, semantic roles, time, causality and speech acts), and theories and techniques for understanding language in context, including intention recognition, text understanding using knowledge of scripts and plans, and models of spoken dialogue systems (e.g., conversational agents such as Siri). CSC447, the graduate level version of the course, requires a substantial individual project.

Prerequisites: CSC 242
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TCS 449-1 Machine Vision Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
47 		Capacity     
75
Co-Located: BCSC 236-1, BCSC 536-1, CSC 249-1 (P), CSC 449-1, ECE 449-1, TCS 449-1
Instructors: Jiebo Luo
Description: Introduction to computer vision, including camera models, basic image processing, pattern and object recognition, and elements of human vision. Specific topics include geometric issues, statistical models, Hough transforms, color theory, texture, and optic flow. CSC 449, a graduate-level course, requires additional readings and assignments.

Prerequisites: MATH 161 and CSC 242; MATH 165 strongly recommended
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TCS 452-1 Computer Organization Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
WF 1525 1640 Gavett Hall Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
68 		Capacity     
70
Co-Located: CSC 252-1 (P), CSC 452-1, TCS 452-1
Instructors: Yuhao Zhu
Description: Introduction to computer architecture and the layering of hardware/software systems. Topics include instruction set design; logical building blocks; computer arithmetic; processor organization; the memory hierarchy (registers, caches, main memory, and secondary storage); I/O—buses, devices, and interrupts; microcode and assembly language; virtual machines; the roles of the assembler, linker, compiler, and operating system; technological trends and the future of computing hardware. Several programming assignments required.

Prerequisites: MTH150 and CSC 172
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TCS 455-1 Software Analysis & Improv Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CSC 255-1 (P), CSC 455-1, ECE 455-1, TCS 455-1
Instructors: Sreepathi Pai
Description: Programming is the automation of information processing. Program analysis and transformation is the automation of programming itself---how much a program can understand and improve other programs. Because of the diversity and complexity of computer hardware, programmers increasingly depend on automation in compilers and other tools to deliver efficient and reliable software. This course combines fundamental principles and (hands-on) practical applications. Specific topics include data flow and dependence theories; static and dynamic program transformation including parallelization; memory and cache management; type checking and program verification; and performance analysis and modeling. The knowledge and practice will help students to become experts in software performance and correctness. Students taking the graduate level will have additional course requirements and a more difficult project.

Recommended prerequisites: CSC 252, CSC 254
Offered: Spring
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TCS 458-1 Parallel & Dist. Systems Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Dewey Room 2110E 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: CSC 258-1 (P), CSC 458-1, TCS 458-1
Instructors: Chen Ding
Description: Principles of parallel and distributed systems, and the associated implementation and performance issues. Topics covered will include programming interfaces to parallel and distributed computing, interprocess communication, synchronization, and consistency models, fault tolerance and reliability, distributed process management, distributed file systems, multiprocessor architectures, parallel program optimization, and parallelizing compilers. Students taking this course at the 400 level will be required to complete additional readings and/or assignments.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TCS 461-1 Database Systems Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Dewey Room 2162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
73 		Capacity     
90
Co-Located: CSC 261-1 (P), CSC 461-1, DSCC 261-1, DSCC 461-1, TCS 461-1
Instructors: Eustrat Zhupa
Description: This course presents the fundamental concepts of database design and use. It provides a study of data models, data description languages, and query facilities including relational algebra and SQL, data normalization, transactions and their properties, physical data organization and indexing, security issues and object databases. It also looks at the new trends in databases. The knowledge of the above topics will be applied in the design and implementation of a database application using a target database management system as part of a semester-long group project.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TCS 465-2 Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Wegmans Room 1400 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
95 		Capacity     
150
Co-Located: DSCC 265-2 (P), DSCC 465-2, TCS 465-2
Instructors: Cantay Caliskan
Description: The course provides an introduction to modern machine learning concepts, techniques, and algorithms. Topics discussed include regression, clustering and classification, kernels, support vector machines, feature selection, goodness of fit, neural networks. Programming assignments emphasize taking theory into practice, through applications on real-world data sets. Students will be expected to work with Python programming environment to complete the assignments. 

PRE-REQUISITES: 

1) DSCC/CSC/TCS 462 or STAT 212 or STAT 213 or equivalent introductory statistics background.

2) Introductory programming in Python or equivalent background in another programming language.

3) Knowledge of data mining/machine learning.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TCS 478-1 Computer Security Foundations Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1815 1930 Hylan Building Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: CSC 278-1 (P), CSC 478-1, TCS 478-1
Instructors: John Criswell
Description:

This course will teach students the foundations of computer security. Students will learn what security is, the design principles of secure systems, how security is enforced, and how security is compromised. Topics include access controls, information flow, basic applications of cryptography, buffer overflow attacks, and malware.

Prerequisites: CSC 252 or CSC 452 or ECE 200.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TCS 480-1 Computer Models & Limitations Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Wegmans Room 1400 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
65 		Capacity     
80
Co-Located: CSC 280-1 (P), CSC 480-1, TCS 480-1
Instructors: Lane Hemaspaandra
Description: This course studies fundamental computer models and their computational limitations. Finite-state machines and pumping lemmas, the context-free languages, Turing machines, decidable and Turing-recognizable languages, undecidability, NP-completeness.

Prerequisites: CSC 173 and MTH 150. YOU MUST REGISTER FOR A RECITATION WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE COURSE.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TCS 482-1 Design & Analysis Efficient Algorithms Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Gavett Hall Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
70 		Capacity     
75
Co-Located: CSC 282-1 (P), CSC 482-1, TCS 482-1
Instructors: Eustrat Zhupa
Description: How does one design programs and ascertain their efficiency? Divide-and-conquer techniques, string processing, graph algorithms, mathematical algorithms. Advanced data structures such as balanced tree schemes. Introduction to NP-completeness and intractable combinatorial search, optimization, and decision problems.

Prerequisites: (MTH 150 AND CSC172) OR MTH172. Students MUST register for a recitation when registering for this course.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TCS 486-1 Computational Complexity Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: CSC 286-1 (P), CSC 486-1, TCS 486-1
Instructors: Lane Hemaspaandra
Description: The difference between computable and uncomputable problems and between feasible and infeasible problems. Regarding the latter, what properties of a problem make it computationally simple? What properties of a problem may preclude its having efficient algorithms? How computationally hard are problems? Complete sets and low information content; P=NP?; unambiguous computation and one-way functions; reductions relating the complexity of problems; complexity classes and hierarchies.

Prerequisites: CSC 280
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering TEAM Chemical Engineering
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TEC 465-1 Green Chemical Engineering Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Hylan Building Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CHE 465-1 (P), TEC 465-1
Instructors: Shaw-Horng Chen
Description: Elements of sustainable chemical processes. Transportation
fuels, bulk and fine chemicals derived from renewable resources-- e.g. animal fats,
plant seeds, lignocellulose, algae, and carbon dioxide. Use of environmentally
benign solvents-- e.g. ionic liquids, supercritical carbon dioxide, fluorous solvents,
and liquid polymer-- for chemical reactions and separations. Chemical reactions
activated by unconventional means-- e.g. ball milling, microwave heating, and
ultrasound irradiation-- requiring minimum energy, catalysts, and solvents.
Polymers produced from renewable resources, designed for recovery and recycling.
Chemical and enzymatic catalysis enhanced by process integration to minimize the
need for product separation and purification. Microreactor technologies to maximize
rates of heat & mass transfer, chemical reaction rates, product yields and selectivity,
in addition to facilitating process control, optimization, and scale-up.
Prerequisites: Organic Chemistry I, Fluid Dynamics, and Thermodynamics.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering TEAM Electrical Engineering
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TEE 404-1 Multiprocessor Arch Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
WF 1525 1640 Hylan Building Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
27 		Capacity     
40
Co-Located: CSC 404-1, ECE 204-1 (P), ECE 404-1, TEE 404-1
Instructors: Michael Huang
Description: This course provides in-depth discussions of the design and implementation issues of multiprocessor system architecture. Topics include cache coherence, memory consistency, interconnect, their interplay and impact on the design of high-performance micro-architectures.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TEE 408-1 The Art of Machine Learning Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
WF 1025 1140 Morey Room 504 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
28 		Capacity     
28
Co-Located: ECE 208-1 (P), ECE 408-1, TEE 408-1
Instructors: Zhiyao Duan
Description: Machine Learning (ML) is the branch of Artificial Intelligence dedicated to teaching computers how to solve tasks by learning from data. This class introduces basic concepts of machine learning through various real-world ECE applications. It will cover various learning paradigms such as supervised learning, semi-supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and reinforcement learning. It will also cover classical and state-of-the-art techniques such as linear models, support vector machines, Gaussian mixture models, hidden Markov models, matrix factorization, ensemble learning, principal component analysis, and various kinds of deep neural networks. Students will learn the pros and cons of different methods and their suited application scenarios. This course is hands-on with multiple programming assignments and a final project to solve real ECE problems. Prerequisites: General programming such as ECE-114; MATH 165 linear algebra. Probability and statistics such as ECE 270 is recommended. 
Offered: Fall
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TEE 433-1 Musical Acoustics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Computer Studies Room 601 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: AME 233-1 (P), ECE 233-1, ECE 433-1, PHYS 233-1, TEE 433-1
Instructors: Michael Heilemann
Description: Aspects of acoustics. Review of oscillators, vibratory motion, the acoustics wave equation, reflection and transmission, and radiation and reception of acoustic waves. Resonators, hearing and speech, architectural and environmental acoustics.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TEE 436-1 Nanophotonic/Nanomechanical Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Gavett Hall Room 312 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
28
Co-Located: ECE 436-1 (P), MSC 437-1, OPT 464-1, TEE 436-1
Instructors: Qiang Lin
Description: Various types of typical nanophotonic structures and nanomechanical structures, fundamental optical and mechanical properties: micro/nano-resonators, photonic crystals, plasmonic structures, metamaterials, nano-optomechanical structures. Cavity nonlinearoptics, cavity quantum optics, and cavity optomechanics. Fundamental physics and applications, state-of-art devices and current research trends. This class is designed primarily for graduate students. It may be suitable for senior 

undergraduates if they have required basic knowledge. prerequisites:

This class is designed primarily for graduate students. It may be suitable for senior undergraduates if they have required basic knowledge. ECE 230 or 235,/435; OPT 262 or 462, or 468, or 223, or 412;  PHY 237, or 407
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TEE 472-1 Audio Sig Proc Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Computer Studies Room 601 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
28 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: AME 272-1 (P), ECE 272-1, ECE 472-1, TEE 472-1
Instructors: Sarah Smith
Description: This course is a survey of audio digital signal processing fundamentals and applications. Topics include sampling and quantization, analog to digital converters, time and frequency domains, spectral analysis, vocoding, digital filters, audio effects, music audio analysis and synthesis, and other advanced topics in audio signal processing. Implementation of algorithms using Matlab and on dedicated DSP platforms is emphasized.
Offered: Fall Spring
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TEE 475-1 Audio Software Design Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Computer Studies Room 616 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
50
Co-Located: AME 262-1 (P), ECE 475-1, TEE 475-1
Instructors: Ming Lun Lee
Description: In this course, students will develop skills for designing audio/music applications and creating computer music in C and Max. We will begin with the history of computer music, a survey of audio programming languages, and a review of C. Libsndfile, a C library for reading and writing sound files, will be used to explore topics in sound synthesis, analysis, and digital signal processing. Students will use PortAudio, a C library for real-time audio input/output, to design DSP applications. Max is a visual programming language for interactive audio/music and multimedia. Students are required to watch pre-recorded lectures to learn Max and attend recitations for reviews. They will also practice their programming techniques through a series of programming assignments, a midterm drum machine project in Max, and a final research/design project.  

Prerequisite: ECE114 or instructor permission
Offered: Fall
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TEE 475-2 Audio Software Design - REC Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1025 1140 Computer Studies Room 616 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
50
Co-Located: AME 262-2 (P), ECE 475-2, TEE 475-2
Instructors: Ming Lun Lee
Description: In this course, the students will develop the ability to design applications in C and Max for audio/music research and computer music. The course will begin with an introduction to computer music and audio programming. After a quick review of C, we will use the Libsndfile, a C library for reading and writing audio files, to develop programs for peak normalization, stereo panning, envelope and waveform synthesis, additive synthesis, table-lookup oscillators, and other digital signal processing tools. We will also use Max, a visual programming language, to explore topics in sound synthesis, signal processing, sound analysis, and computer music design. The students will practice their programming techniques through a series of programming assignments, a midterm drum machine project using Max, and a final design/research project.

Prerequisite: ECE114 or instructor permission
Offered: Fall
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Technical Entrepreneurship Management
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
TEM 411-1 Gen Managemnt of New Venture Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1815 2055 Goergen Hall Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
35 		Capacity     
50
Co-Located: OPT 481-1, TEM 411-1 (P)
Instructors: Jim Zavislan
Description: This course provides an opportunity to examine the management practices associated with technical innovation and new business development. The analysis of entrepreneurship is evaluated primarily from the perspective of a start-up venture that requires equity capital investment. Management issues discussed include organizational development, analysis of market opportunities, market engagement, financial planning and control, capitalization, sources of funds, the due-diligence process and valuing the venture. Teams of three to four students will collaborate in the preparation of a business plan. The course will include time for students to share business ideas and identify possible team members. Each team will have a coach who is an experienced businessperson. The coach will be available to provide feedback to the team.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TEM 441-1 Product Dev & Tech Mgmt Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1815 2055 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: OPT 482-1, TEM 441-1 (P)
Instructors: Mark Wilson
Description: The course will introduce the development of products under the FDAs CGMP (current good manufacturing practices) and the ISO 13485 standard for medical devices. The intent is to understand how to use these standards (or the ISO9000 standard for products other than medical devices) to develop products or research systems that meet requirements. The course will emphasize understanding customer and market requirements, which leads to a product requirements document (PRD), and proceeds through concept development, risk and failure analysis, industrial and human factors design considerations, design analysis and manufacturing considerations. The course also presents topics on scheduling, budgeting, patents and intellectual property management. Special note on mobile-app-only development: while app development is popular, the risks and the business models are very unique from a regular hardware-based product development. Therefore, this class will not cover the concepts of app development.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering TEAM Optics
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
TEO 412-1 Quantum Mechanics for Optics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Bausch & Lomb Room 270 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: OPT 412-1 (P), TEO 412-1
Instructors: Taco Visser
Description: Quantum theory topics relevant to atomic physics, radiation theory and quantum optics.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TEO 421-1 Opt Properties of Materials Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: ECE 421-1, MSC 470-1, OPT 421-1 (P), TEO 421-1
Instructors: Gary Wicks
Description: Interaction of light with materials electrons, phonons, plasmons, and polaritons. Optical reflection, refraction, absorption, scattering, Raman scattering (spontaneous and stimulated), light emission (spontaneous and stimulated). Electrooptic effects and optical nonlinearities in solids. Plasmonics. Semiconductors and their nanostructures are emphasized; metals and insulators also discussed.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TEO 423-1 Detection of Optcl Radiation Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Goergen Hall Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
19 		Capacity     
25
Co-Located: OPT 423-1 (P), TEO 423-1
Instructors: Chunlei Guo
Description: The course covers modeling of optical radiation, human perception of light, emission of thermal radiation, statistics of light and detectors, basic parameters of photodetectors, and different types of detectors.
References: Robert W. Boyd, Radiometry and the Detection of Optical Radiation, Wiley, 1983, ISBN 0-471-86188-X; William L. Wolfe, Introduction to Radiometry, SPIE, 1998, ISBN 0-8194-2758-6; Bahaa E. A. Saleh and Malvin C. Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics, Wiley, 2007, ISBN 978-0471358329
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TEO 442-1 Instrumental Opt Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1815 2055 Goergen Hall Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
32 		Capacity     
50
Co-Located: OPT 442-1 (P), TEO 442-1
Instructors: Greg Schmidt
Description: This course provides an in-depth understanding of the principles and practices of optical instrumentation: Optical metrology, including wavefront and surface metrology, interferometric instruments and interferogram analysis, coherence and coherence-based instruments, phase measurement and phase-shifting interferometry; spectroscopic instrumentation, including the Fourier transfrom spectrometer, the Fabry-Perot interferometer, and the grating monochromator; image plane characterization (star test, Ronchi test, and modulation transfer function); the influence of illumination and partial coherence on image forming systems, including microscopes, systems for projection lithography, and displays.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TEO 447-1 Advanced Optical Coatings Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: OPT 247-1 (P), OPT 447-1, TEO 447-1
Instructors: Jennifer Kruschwitz
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course will introduce the student to the physical, chemical and optical properties of liquid crystals (LC) that are the basis for their wide and successful exploitation as optical materials for a broad variety of applications in optics, photonics and information display. Topics to be presented include: origins of LC physical properties in thermotropic and lyotropic materials as a function of chemical structure, influence of these structure-property relationships on macroscopic organization in LC mesophases, and the effect of molecular ordering and order parameter on properties of special significance for device applications. Operating principles for LC devices in a wide variety of applications will be described, including passive and tunable/switchable polarizers, wave plates, filters, information displays and electronic addressing, electronic paper, color-shifting polarizing pigments, optical modulators, and applications in photonics and lasers
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TEO 448-1 Vision and the Eye Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: BCSC 223-1, OPT 248-1 (P), OPT 448-1, TEO 448-1
Instructors: Sarah Walters
Description: How the human eye's optical and neural factors process color and spatial information includes comparison with the design and capabilities of other animals' eyes.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TEO 462-1 Electromag Waves Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
29 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: OPT 462-1 (P), TEO 462-1
Instructors: Govind Agrawal
Description: Electromagnetic theory as a foundation for classical descriptions of many optical phenomena. Pertaining topics reviewed and expanded upon.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TEO 465-1 Principles of Lasers Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
34 		Capacity     
34
Co-Located: ME 465-1, MSC 465-1, OPT 465-1 (P), PHYS 435-1, TEO 465-1
Instructors: Pablo Postigo Resa
Description: Topics include quantum mechanical treatments to two-level atomic systems, optical gain, homogeneous and inhomogeneous broadening, laser resonators, cavity design, pumping schemes, rate equations, Q-switching for various lasers.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering TEAM Mechanical Engineering
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
TME 424-1 Robust Design/Quality Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
22 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ME 222-1 (P), ME 424-1, MSC 424-1, TME 424-1
Instructors: Paul Funkenbusch
Description: Definition and pursuit of 'quality' as a design criterion. The concept of robust design. Selection of the quality characteristic, incorporation of noise, and experimental design to improve robustness. Analysis and interpretation of results.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TME 432-1 Opto-Mechanical Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Goergen Hall Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ME 232-1 (P), ME 432-1, MSC 432-1, OPT 232-1, OPT 432-1, TME 432-1
Instructors: Victor Genberg
Description: The mechanical design and analysis of optical components and systems will be studied. Topics will include kinematic mounting of optical elements, the analysis of adhesive bonds, and the influence of environmental effects such as gravity, temperature, and vibration on the performance of optical systems. Additional topics include analysis of adaptive optics, the design of lightweight mirrors, thermo-optic and stress-optic (stress birefringence) effects. Emphasis will be placed on integrated analysis which includes the data transfer between optical design codes and mechanical FEA codes. A term project is required for ME 432.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TME 435-1 Intro to Plasma Physics II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Hylan Building Room 306 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: ME 435-1 (P), PHYS 455-1, TME 435-1
Instructors: Chuang Ren
Description: Introduction to kinetic theory and the moment equations. Vlasov equation, Landau damping. Waves in unmagnetized and magnetized plasmas. Collisional processes, Fokker-Planck equation. Two-stream instability, micro-instabilities. Nonlinear effects, fluctuations.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TME 436-1 Compressible Flow Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Gavett Hall Room 312 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: ME 436-1 (P), TME 436-1
Instructors: Valeri Goncharov
Description: Kinematics, equations of motion; thermodynamics of gases; linear acoustics; Bernoulli equation; potential flow; steady one-dimensional flow; shock waves, normal and oblique shocks; unsteady one-dimensional flow, characteristics. Applications in engineering and astrophysics.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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TME 444-1 Continuum Mechanics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Meliora Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: ME 444-1 (P), TME 444-1
Instructors: Douglas Kelley
Description: Continuum mechanics may be the topic that best defines and unifies mechanical engineering. The topic considers motion, deformation, flow, stresses, forces, and heat transfer as determined by the laws of mechanics. Those phenomena may occur in any materials — solids, fluids, or things in-between — that can be well-modeled as continuous, not discrete (meaning quantization effects are negligible). To handle this wide variety of phenomena and materials, we use the language of tensor mathematics, which we will build up at the beginning of the course. Applications to ongoing research of the instructor and students will be incorporated wherever possible. The course will include indicial notation and tensor analysis, concepts of stress, both Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions of deformation and strain, conservation of mass, momentum, energy, angular momentum, and constitutive equations to describe material response.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Writing Program
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 098-1 Speaking and Listening II Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1025 1140 Genesee Hall Room 321 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Xueyan Duan
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: WRTG 098 is designed to help undergraduate non-native speakers of English improve their English oral communication and listening skills in preparation for professional interactions at the university and beyond. Students will have a chance to practice written and spoken communication strategies such as first meetings with faculty and staff, interviewing strategies, cover letter and resume formats, and follow-up communication techniques. The course will also cover formal presentation techniques, using socialization strategies, adapting to cultural differences, practicing small talk, and making formal and informal introductions.

Prerequisites:  EAPP Program permission required.
Offered: Spring
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WRTG 098-2 Speaking and Listening II Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1230 1345 Meliora Room 219 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Xueyan Duan
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: WRTG 098 is designed to help undergraduate non-native speakers of English improve their English oral communication and listening skills in preparation for professional interactions at the university and beyond. Students will have a chance to practice written and spoken communication strategies such as first meetings with faculty and staff, interviewing strategies, cover letter and resume formats, and follow-up communication techniques. The course will also cover formal presentation techniques, using socialization strategies, adapting to cultural differences, practicing small talk, and making formal and informal introductions.

Prerequisites:  EAPP Program permission required.
Offered: Spring
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WRTG 098-3 Speaking and Listening II Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1025 1140 Lattimore Room 431 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Catherine Schmied Towsley
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: WRTG 098 is designed to help undergraduate non-native speakers of English improve their English oral communication and listening skills in preparation for professional interactions at the university and beyond. Students will have a chance to practice written and spoken communication strategies such as first meetings with faculty and staff, interviewing strategies, cover letter and resume formats, and follow-up communication techniques. The course will also cover formal presentation techniques, using socialization strategies, adapting to cultural differences, practicing small talk, and making formal and informal introductions.

Prerequisites:  EAPP Program permission required.
Offered: Spring
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WRTG 098-4 Speaking and Listening II Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1025 1140 Hylan Building Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Ting Zhang
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: WRTG 098 is designed to help undergraduate non-native speakers of English improve their English oral communication and listening skills in preparation for professional interactions at the university and beyond. Students will have a chance to practice written and spoken communication strategies such as first meetings with faculty and staff, interviewing strategies, cover letter and resume formats, and follow-up communication techniques. The course will also cover formal presentation techniques, using socialization strategies, adapting to cultural differences, practicing small talk, and making formal and informal introductions.

Prerequisites:  EAPP Program permission required.
Offered: Spring
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WRTG 099-1 Rhetoric, Reading & Writing Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1220 Todd Union Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
20
Instructors: Xueyan Duan
Description: WRTG 099 is an introduction to the art of effective and persuasive speaking or writing. Students will be introduced to concepts of rhetorical analysis and the use of logic, as well as the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style, and argumentative strategies of their papers. Lessons will center on the analysis of varied readings and on using writing as a tool for critical thinking and reflection. In addition, students will build writing fluency and self-expression through free writing and in-class writing. Collaboration is an important part of learning; therefore, students will work together as they learn to critique their work and the work of peers.

WRTG 099: Rhetoric, Reading & Writing is an integrated course that supports WRTG 098 Speaking & Listening II.

Prerequisites:  EAPP Program permission required.
Offered: Spring
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WRTG 099-2 Rhetoric, Reading, & Writing Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1640 Genesee Hall Room 309 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Xueyan Duan
Description: WRTG 099 is an introduction to the art of effective and persuasive speaking or writing. Students will be introduced to concepts of rhetorical analysis and the use of logic, as well as the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style, and argumentative strategies of their papers. Lessons will center on the analysis of varied readings and on using writing as a tool for critical thinking and reflection. In addition, students will build writing fluency and self-expression through free writing and in-class writing. Collaboration is an important part of learning; therefore, students will work together as they learn to critique their work and the work of peers.

WRTG 099: Rhetoric, Reading & Writing is an integrated course that supports WRTG 098 Speaking & Listening II.

Prerequisites:  EAPP Program permission required.
Offered: Spring
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WRTG 099-3 Rhetoric, Reading, & Writing Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1140 Rush Rhees Library Room 304E 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Catherine Schmied Towsley
Description: WRTG 099 is an introduction to the art of effective and persuasive speaking or writing. Students will be introduced to concepts of rhetorical analysis and the use of logic, as well as the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style, and argumentative strategies of their papers. Lessons will center on the analysis of varied readings and on using writing as a tool for critical thinking and reflection. In addition, students will build writing fluency and self-expression through free writing and in-class writing. Collaboration is an important part of learning; therefore, students will work together as they learn to critique their work and the work of peers.

WRTG 099: Rhetoric, Reading & Writing is an integrated course that supports WRTG 098 Speaking & Listening II.

Prerequisites:  EAPP Program permission required.
Offered: Spring
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WRTG 099-4 Rhetoric, Reading, & Writing Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1140 Wegmans Room 1005 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Ting Zhang
Description: WRTG 099 is an introduction to the art of effective and persuasive speaking or writing. Students will be introduced to concepts of rhetorical analysis and the use of logic, as well as the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style, and argumentative strategies of their papers. Lessons will center on the analysis of varied readings and on using writing as a tool for critical thinking and reflection. In addition, students will build writing fluency and self-expression through free writing and in-class writing. Collaboration is an important part of learning; therefore, students will work together as they learn to critique their work and the work of peers.

WRTG 099: Rhetoric, Reading & Writing is an integrated course that supports WRTG 098 Speaking & Listening II.

Prerequisites:  EAPP Program permission required.
Offered: Spring
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WRTG 102-1 EAPP Communication across Contexts II Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 900 1015 Hylan Building Room 307 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Matt Bayne
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Undergraduate students enrolled at the University of Rochester who are not in EAPP (English for Academic Purposes Program) but wish to take EAPP classes should contact the EAPP director, Paige Sloan (gsloan@ur.rochester.edu ).

This course builds upon the lessons from WRTG 101: EAPP Communication across Contexts I, and it is designed to help undergraduate non-native speakers of English improve their English oral communication and listening skills in preparation for academic and social interactions. Students will practice taking notes, summarizing, repeating, and critiquing key information from recorded lectures and presentations with an emphasis on the discourse most prevalent in undergraduate university courses. Students will also practice communicating in different academic, social, and cultural contexts as they engage in classroom conversation, debates, interviews, speaking to formal audiences, and giving academic presentations in English. Class work will take place in and out of the classroom with the collaboration of native and non-native speakers of English in formal and informal settings.

Prerequisite: A grade of C or better is required in WRTG 101: EAPP Communication across Contexts I, or permission from the EAPP Program director for non-EAPP Program students. WRTG 102 is an integrated course that supports WRTG 104: EAPP Research, Reading, and Writing coursework.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 102-2 EAPP Communication across Contexts II Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1025 1115 Rush Rhees Library Room 304E 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Georgianna Sloan
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Undergraduate students enrolled at the University of Rochester who are not in EAPP (English for Academic Purposes Program) but wish to take EAPP classes should contact the EAPP director, Paige Sloan (gsloan@ur.rochester.edu ).

This course builds upon the lessons from WRTG 101: EAPP Communication across Contexts I, and it is designed to help undergraduate non-native speakers of English improve their English oral communication and listening skills in preparation for academic and social interactions. Students will practice taking notes, summarizing, repeating, and critiquing key information from recorded lectures and presentations with an emphasis on the discourse most prevalent in undergraduate university courses. Students will also practice communicating in different academic, social, and cultural contexts as they engage in classroom conversation, debates, interviews, speaking to formal audiences, and giving academic presentations in English. Class work will take place in and out of the classroom with the collaboration of native and non-native speakers of English in formal and informal settings.

Prerequisites: A grade of C or better in WRTG 101: EAPP Communication across Contexts I, or permission of EAPP Program for non-EAPP Program students. WRTG 102 is an integrated course that supports WRTG 104: EAPP Research, Reading, and Writing coursework.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 102-3 EAPP Communication across Contexts II Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 900 1015 Rush Rhees Library Room G108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Laura Whitebell
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Undergraduate students enrolled at the University of Rochester who are not in EAPP (English for Academic Purposes Program) but wish to take EAPP classes should contact the EAPP director, Paige Sloan (gsloan@ur.rochester.edu).

This course builds upon the lessons from WRTG 101: EAPP Communication across Contexts I, and it is designed to help undergraduate non-native speakers of English improve their English oral communication and listening skills in preparation for academic and social interactions. Students will practice taking notes, summarizing, repeating, and critiquing key information from recorded lectures and presentations with an emphasis on the discourse most prevalent in undergraduate university courses. Students will also practice communicating in different academic, social, and cultural contexts as they engage in classroom conversation, debates, interviews, speaking to formal audiences, and giving academic presentations in English. Class work will take place in and out of the classroom with the collaboration of native and non-native speakers of English in formal and informal settings.

Prerequisite: A grade of C or better is required in WRTG 101: EAPP Communication across Contexts I, or permission from the EAPP Program director for non-EAPP Program students. WRTG 102 is an integrated course that supports WRTG 104: EAPP Research, Reading, and Writing coursework.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 104-1 EAPP Research, Reading, and Writing Spring 2023 6.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1220 Hylan Building Room 307 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Matt Bayne
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Undergraduate students enrolled at the University of Rochester who are not in EAPP (English for Academic Purposes Program) but wish to take EAPP classes should contact the EAPP director, Paige Sloan (gsloan@ur.rochester.edu).

WRTG 104 extends the critical reading and writing skills learned in WRTG 103: EAPP Critical Reading, Reasoning, and Writing to the act of research. Research may include traditional library sources and academic journals, but it may also include primary research such as fieldwork, surveys, and interviews. A variety of texts will be analyzed and discussed in preparation for constructing extended argumentative essays and a final argumentative research paper. Reading and responding critically to texts will be practiced. Students will learn to incorporate source material into research writing and integrate one's ideas with those from other texts. Collaboration is an important part of learning; therefore, students will work together as they learn to critique their work and the work of peers. Attention will be given to writing beyond the classroom, such as communicating with faculty and staff across the college.

Prerequisites: A grade of C or better is required in WRTG 103: EAPP Critical Reading, Research, and Writing, or permission of EAPP Program for non-EAPP Program students.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 104-2 EAPP Research, Reading, and Writing Spring 2023 6.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1140 Lechase Room 121 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Laura Whitebell
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Undergraduate students enrolled at the University of Rochester who are not in EAPP (English for Academic Purposes Program) but wish to take EAPP classes should contact the EAPP director, Paige Sloan (gsloan@ur.rochester.edu).

WRTG 104 extends the critical reading and writing skills learned in WRTG 103: EAPP Critical Reading, Reasoning, and Writing to the act of research. Research may include traditional library sources and academic journals, but it may also include primary research such as fieldwork, surveys, and interviews. A variety of texts will be analyzed and discussed in preparation for constructing extended argumentative essays and a final argumentative research paper. Reading and responding critically to texts will be practiced. Students will learn to incorporate source material into research writing and integrate one's ideas with those from other texts. Collaboration is an important part of learning; therefore, students will work together as they learn to critique their work and the work of peers. Attention will be given to writing beyond the classroom, such as communicating with faculty and staff across the college.

Prerequisites: A grade of C or better is required in WRTG 103: EAPP Critical Reading, Research, and Writing, or permission of EAPP Program for non-EAPP Program students.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 104-3 EAPP Research, Reading, and Writing Spring 2023 6.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1640 Rush Rhees Library Room 304E 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Georgianna Sloan
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Undergraduate students enrolled at the University of Rochester who are not in EAPP (English for Academic Purposes Program) but wish to take EAPP classes should contact the EAPP director, Paige Sloan (gsloan@ur.rochester.edu ).

WRT 104 extends the critical reading and writing skills learned in WRTG 103: EAPP Critical Reading, Reasoning, and Writing to the act of research. Research may include traditional library sources and academic journals, but it may also include primary research such as fieldwork, surveys, and interviews. A variety of texts will be analyzed and discussed in preparation for constructing extended argumentative essays and a final argumentative research paper. Reading and responding critically to texts will be practiced. Students will learn to incorporate source material into research writing and integrate one's ideas with those from other texts. Collaboration is an important part of learning; therefore, students will work together as they learn to critique their work and the work of peers. Attention will be given to writing beyond the classroom, such as communicating with faculty and staff across the college.

Prerequisites: A grade of C or better is required in WRTG 103: EAPP Critical Reading, Research, and Writing, or permission of EAPP Program for non-EAPP Program students.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-1 Garbage, Waste, Trash: Writing at the Edge of Excess Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Meliora Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Christian Wessels
Description: Several times a day we choose to discard objects in trash bins, in garbage disposals, out the window. These objects, for different reasons, no longer belong in our daily lives—but why? How do we define “garbage,” and how do representations of trash impact decisions we make every day? Drawing on personal points of interest and developing their own techniques for inquiry, students will grow as writers, readers, and thinkers by interrogating what contributes to our notions of garbage. We will consider how garbage is represented to us in different media by looking at notable texts, both scholarly and literary: A.R. Ammons’ long poem Garbage, for example, as well as critical research on waste management, and Lucy Walker’s film Waste Land. Through the process of writing and revising, through class discussions and peer feedback, we will consider where garbage travels once it leaves our hands, and we will think about what’s at stake for us environmentally, artistically, and historically. Assignments will include writing reflections, short essays, a multi-modal project, as well as a final 8-10 page argumentative research paper for which students are invited to draw from their own disciplinary interests.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-10 Everyday Inequality: Exploring Privilege, Microagression, and Subtle Forms of Power Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Lechase Room 103 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Justin Coyne
Description: Why do we see racial, sexual and other forms of inequality when most people denounce racism and sexism? What responsibilities do present generations have for the injustices of past generations? How does one live ethically in an unjust world? To answer these questions, recent conversations about racism and sexism have become increasingly focused on subtle manifestations of power, including implicit bias, various forms of privilege, and microaggressions. Through formal and informal writing, you will enter the debates about these issues, exploring both the promise of these ways of understanding oppression, and also the ways in which some perspectives might overreach.  Course materials will include texts by Robin DiAngelo, Robert Boyers, John McWhorter, and others. In two shorter papers and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper, you will develop and refine responses to course materials through a writing process that will involve drafting, revision, peer response, and self-reflection.  

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-11 Man, Machine, and Morality Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Lechase Room 148 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: James Otis
Description: Human culture and machine/technology culture are becoming more and more entangled in recent decades. In this course, we will engage a variety of questions regarding the social, political, and moral implications of this entanglement. Should autonomous systems be permitted in warfare? Should human enhancement technologies be controlled by parents or by governments? Should humanity strive to throw off the constraints of biological existence for something else entirely? What are genetic "diseases" and should we try to eliminate them? We will use the tools of research, writing, argument, and discussion to hone our views on these complex issues and learn to communicate our conclusions through writing. Students will develop two analytical and argumentative essays during this course. Successful completion of the course will prepare students for the research proposal and 8-10 page argumentative research paper.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-12 Being Homo Sapiens Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Rush Rhees Library Room G108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Stella Wang
Description: We call ourselves Homo sapiens sapiens: a knowing species that knows it knows. But why and when does the mind also go on autopilot, as noted by behavioral medicine, neuroscience, as well as ancient meditative traditions? How does this human awareness, or lack of it, inform stance and opinions? In the face of catastrophe, how may mindful awareness of one’s reactions help reveal important information about oneself, including feelings, needs, goals, relationships? We will consider these questions together by exploring poetry from that of Rumi to Mary Oliver to Derek Walcott and films such as E.T. and Ghost in the Shell. Other readings include studies on how the brain, mind, and heart work subtly to create realities—ones as fleeting as they can be profound and consequential. We invite everyone to join our interdisciplinary inquiry while cultivating academic writing skills through class discussion, formal and informal writing, peer review, revision, writer reflection, and a final argumentative research paper.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105-13 Sharing culture: a dialogue Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Hylan Building Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Solveiga Armoskaite
Description: Driven by indigenous thought, the course contemplates exchanges between cultures. What constitutes cultural exchange, fusion and appropriation? How do indigenous authors see cultural exchange? We will delve into primary and secondary scholarly sources as we examine our own encounters with cultural cross-pollination. We will reflect on how, e.g., Kimmerer (2013) reconciles ecological views of Western and indigenous traditions or how King (2017) documents uses and abuses of indigenous symbols in popular culture. We will start with an informal reflection. The reflection will inform future work for the course, which will include shorter projects and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. Throughout the drafting process, peer and instructor’s feedback will hone academic writing as scholarly dialogue. The process will allow for time, space and means to forge one’s own voice.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-15 Questions of Travel Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1815 1930 Goergen Hall Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Seth Murray
Description: What does it mean to travel? This question has long occupied writers. Travel writing has traditionally served as a medium for investigations of identity and the spirit of place. More recently it has become a space for renewed analyses of race, gender, capitalism, imperialism, and the ethics of movement and technology during climate change. What might it mean to you? We will use this course as an opportunity to articulate for ourselves just what it means to travel, and what our own questions of travel might be. We will read widely, engaging with perspectives of travel from a variety of periods, places, professions, and identities, and then leverage that reading into a robust writing practice in order to locate our own bearings on these questions. We will begin with a series of short assignments, both formal and informal, from paper proposals and annotated bibliographies to mock itineraries and journals. Readings might range from tales of wandering in classical Japan to the nature writing of Barry Lopez and the Paris essays of James Baldwin. We will build up, through a process of discussion, revision, peer feedback, and reflection into writing a final 8-10 page argumentative research paper. No travel experience necessary.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105-16 Video Games & Play Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Rettner Hall Room 307 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Kristana Textor
Description: Play and games have been at the heart of the human experience for centuries. When we play, we learn, and video games are increasingly a part of this tradition. What conversations are we having about games and play in our society, and why do they matter? Where does power lie in the world of games, design, and development? How do we perform identity when we play? How are games impacting social change and behavior? Students will raise authentic questions as they write about games from a variety of lenses: design, narrative, psychology, gender, genre, and more. We will not only play video games as primary texts, but also discuss, analyze, evaluate, and write about our interactions with and stances towards video games. Our work will involve writing exercises, multimodal elements, peer feedback, formal essays, reflection, revision, and a supportive writing environment. We will analyze peer-reviewed articles, Ralph Koster’s illustrated book A Theory of Fun, and literature from game-studies luminaries such as Gee, Squire, McGonigal, and Ito. Students will culminate their efforts towards becoming better writers in an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. All disciplines and levels of interest in critiquing games are welcome, no expertise is required.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-17 Impacts of Engineering Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Genesee Hall Room 308 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Lisabeth Tinelli
Description: Advancements in engineering affect almost every aspect of our society, but what is the nature of this impact? How do engineering solutions influence the social, cultural, and environmental contexts within which they are implemented? Students will explore questions such as these by using writing as a tool for inquiry, discovery, and knowledge construction. In constructing new knowledge, students will also learn how to navigate ethical issues around proper attribution of ideas, as this is important to both writers and engineers. Class discussions, readings, and informal assignments will work together to inform the drafting and revision of two short argumentative essays, an 8-10 page research paper, and a multimodal composition for a public audience. Through peer response and self-assessment, students will learn how to effectively communicate with a variety of audiences.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-18 Popular Nonfiction Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Lechase Room 160 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Marcie Woehl
Description: What makes popular nonfiction so compelling? The writer’s style? Their voice? Their eye for topics that often surprise us? And how can we successfully utilize those rhetorical strategies in our own writing? In this course, we’ll take a deep dive into popular nonfiction, analyzing how the way one writes affects what is learned, who the audience is, and how the text shapes the world. To explore these questions in action, we’ll look at post-1945 nonfiction writers like renegade journalist Hunter S. Thompson, conflicting chroniclers of the Vietnam War Michael Herr and Viet Thanh Nguyen, public intellectual Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the “everymen” podcasters behind Stuff You Should Know, seeing how these writers became famous, in part, for making their complex ideas profoundly engaging to the larger public. While we use these works to underpin our informal and formal writing assignments and discussion, we’ll also use them as models as we practice writing in styles which suit audiences from trained academics to casual readers. Through peer feedback, reflection, and revision, you will develop writing skills fit for a variety of contexts, with your work culminating in an 8-10 page argumentative research paper integrating course themes and individual interests.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-19 Feeling Good: Empathy and Ethics Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Rush Rhees Library Room G108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Dustin Hannum
Description: Research into the origins and workings of human empathy has flowered in recent years. Scholars in fields from literature and law to psychology and neuroscience now study empathy’s role in human evolution, relationships, and political life. Is empathy a reliable guide to moral action? How should it factor into legal decisions regarding guilt and punishment? How is it influenced by race, gender, and other forms of cultural identity? Students will explore such questions as a way of developing as college-level writers and thinkers. They will watch films like A Time to Kill and Jo-Jo Rabbit and confront arguments about empathy from multiple disciplines and multiple genres (like op-eds and podcasts). They will then join in the discussion about these issues, composing a series of informal responses and short formal assignments leading up to an 8-10pp argumentative research paper. The class will emphasize all aspects of the writing process, including peer and instructor feedback, revision, and self-reflection.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-2 Friendship, Identity, and Society Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Lechase Room 161 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Luke Jarzyna
Description: Friendship offers a window through which people come into their identities. We will look at both representations and scholarly discussions of friendship to think about how friendship functions in the world.  Through analyzing and writing about novels, films, and journalism, we will pursue questions such as: How does friendship shape who we are and how we participate in society? How can friendships both enrich and complicate our lives? And what does friendship offer as opposed to familial, professional, or romantic relationships? We will read classic literary texts like Zora Neal Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and odes to friendship by Shakespeare and Lord Alfred Tennyson. We will also consider how experiences of marginalization shape relations of friendship and kinship. Audre Lorde and bell hooks, for example, theorize the role of friendship in movements for self-determination, meanwhile LGBTQ people describe finding affirmative “chosen family” among friends. Exploring these phenomena will broaden how we understand friendship to shape identity and belonging, and therefore how friendship functions in society. In formal and informal writing assignments students will analyze course texts, receive peer feedback on their writing, and produce written reflections. Students will also complete an 8-10-page argumentative research paper.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-20 The Modern Shapeshifter Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Lattimore Room 431 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Arthur Tapia
Description: What is it about shapeshifting that has so fascinated us throughout human history? Who and what are our shapeshifters? In what ways does the figure of the shapeshifter reveal our own anxieties, desires, and fantasies about becoming something unfamiliar, something otherwise, something new? How are the very political, scientific, and identity-based questions we ask today shaped by the notion of shapeshifting? Through open conversation and exploratory writing about our course texts, we will work through these questions and other inquiries we discover together. From aliens and witches to cosplayers and octopuses, we will see the many ways in which shapeshifting shifts through our everyday lives by way of movies, literature, scholarly articles, podcasts, and comic books: including acclaimed works such as Mamoru Hosoda’s Belle, Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”, Sherwin Bitsui’s Shapeshifter, and Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed’s My Octopus Teacher. Finally, we will familiarize ourselves with the writing process through informal and formal writing, peer feedback, reflection, and guided revisions. By the end of the semester, we will use these processes to write an 8-10 page argumentative research paper.  

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-21 Our Homes and What They Mean to Us Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Rush Rhees Library Room G108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Dorothea Hinman
Description: The adage “home is where the heart is” does not capture the whole truth; our experiences in the age of COVID tell us that home is also where the work is, for example. This begs the question: What is “home” and our relationship to it? To what extent is home a physical structure, a state of mind, and/or a community of people? What does it mean to “leave home,” whether to embark on a fantastical adventure, to attend college, or to be unhoused? We will interact with multidisciplinary texts that will include theoretical perspectives such as ecology’s home range theory and Aristotle’s philosophical view of the household. Texts will also include personal and popular perspectives from the unhoused subjects of the YouTube series Invisible People and films like Finding Nemo. Considering these perspectives, we will develop and critically discuss our own ideas through group activities and informal written assignments. Formal written assignments will undergo processes such as peer-feedback, self-reflection, and revision, and our progress as academic writers will culminate in a final 8-10 page argumentative research paper.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-22 Let’s Talk Emotions Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Rush Rhees Library Room G108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Solveiga Armoskaite
Description: Have you felt ‘butterflies in your stomach’ or ‘the weight of the world on your shoulders’? Have you ‘fallen for someone’ ‘head over heels’? Have you felt a physical rush when expressing rage in profanity you could not believe you even knew? Whether we choose to ignore or embrace them, emotions manifest themselves. Using writing as a mode of thinking, we explore how emotions converge in verbal and non-verbal communication, and how they shape us and the world we live in. We will consider a range of sources on language and body; e.g. whether vulnerability is at the heart of courage (psychology, Brown 2018), whether anything is conveyed through touch (tactile communication, Classen 2020) and whether silence or lack of movement are tough to interpret (cultural studies, Donahue 2020). To reflect on an emotion of your choice, the students produce an informal podcast. The podcast exchange will open research questions. Next, we forge a research proposal with an annotated bibliography. Finally, the proposal will grow into an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. The drafting of papers increasing in complexity, writer-reflection as well as peer and instructor’s response will help us hone academic writing as scholarly dialogue.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-23 Contemporary Social Movements: Exploring Social And Political Change Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Meliora Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Rachel O'Donnell
Description: Why are people moved to join social movements and work toward political change? What do movements themselves reveal about the kind of world we want to live in? In exploring these questions, we will draw from contemporary writing on new social movements from Angela Davis and Arundati Roy and others, and consider a variety of texts that deal with local and global expressions of dissent, including documentary films and personal testimonies. Our collective inquiry will connect concepts from movement practices in several short essays as we learn about effective writing through drafting, revision, peer response, and self-reflection.  Our work will culminate in an 8-10 page argumentative research paper, which will demonstrate student ability to engage in critical conversation around contemporary social movements. Please be aware that this course contains content that explores violence and may be upsetting. Please feel free to contact the instructor for more information.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-24 Contemporary Social Movements: Exploring Social And Political Change Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Hylan Building Room 105 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Rachel O'Donnell
Description: Why are people moved to join social movements and work toward political change? What do movements themselves reveal about the kind of world we want to live in? In exploring these questions, we will draw from contemporary writing on new social movements from Angela Davis and Arundati Roy and others, and consider a variety of texts that deal with local and global expressions of dissent, including documentary films and personal testimonies. Our collective inquiry will connect concepts from movement practices in several short essays as we learn about effective writing through drafting, revision, peer response, and self-reflection.  Our work will culminate in an 8-10 page argumentative research paper, which will demonstrate student ability to engage in critical conversation around contemporary social movements. Please be aware that this course contains content that explores violence and may be upsetting. Please feel free to contact the instructor for more information.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-26 What do people do all day? Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Lechase Room 160 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Catherine Schmied Towsley
Description: How is American culture and history shaped by work? How does one's work and search for a career affect individual identity development? What makes "work" into a career? Through popular culture examples including children's books (eg. Richard Scarry's, What do People do all day) films (eg. Billy Elliot, Office Space, Social Network), and theoretical readings from labor history, sociology, and psychology, this class will explore the definition of work in American culture broadly as well as in individual stories. By engaging students in a constructive learning process including class discussions, critical reading, and formal and informal writing assignments this course will introduce students to academic writing. Writing assignments include short analytical essays and one 8-10 page argumentative research paper. The focus of this course is the writing process and will involve drafting, peer response, self-assessment and revision.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-27 Sports as Politics: The Convergence of Sports and Political Argument in Contemporary United States Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Lechase Room 148 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Justin Grossman
Description: In what scholars have dubbed “The Age of Fracture,” it is no surprise that sports and fandom are increasingly shaped by political values. In the past couple of years sports fans have argued over boycotting different sports leagues, kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality, and changing racially insensitive team names and logos. How has this politicization changed what it means to be a sports fan? Why are these questions debated through sports? Are sports inherently political? Students will explore these questions and develop other lines of inquiry about the growing politicization of American sports. In order to do so, students will read, watch, listen to, and compare modern sports and political journalism from a wide range of media outlets including ESPN, theringer.com, CNN, Fox News, etc. In class discussion and through journals and other short writing assignments, students will be asked to analyze the format of this coverage and the perspectives and underlying assumptions that shape it. Students will also write 3-4 short papers developing ideas raised throughout the semester with each paper undergoing peer response, instructor feedback, and reflection. The course will culminate in an 8-10 page argumentative research paper on a sports debate of the student’s choosing.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105-29 What do people do all day? Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Lechase Room 122 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Catherine Schmied Towsley
Description: How is American culture and history shaped by work? How does one's work and search for a career affect individual identity development? What makes "work" into a career? Through popular culture examples including children's books (eg. Richard Scarry's, What do People do all day) films (eg. Billy Elliot, Office Space, Social Network), and theoretical readings from labor history, sociology, and psychology, this class will explore the definition of work in American culture broadly as well as in individual stories. By engaging students in a constructive learning process including class discussions, critical reading, and formal and informal writing assignments this course will introduce students to academic writing. Writing assignments include short analytical essays and one 8-10 page argumentative research paper. The focus of this course is the writing process and will involve drafting, peer response, self-assessment and revision.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-3 Expression at Large: The Arts in the Age of Social Media Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Hylan Building Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Orisa Morrice
Description: New opportunities for artistic expression have disseminated to the masses at an unprecedented rate through access to social media. Instagram photographers, Wordpress poets, YouTube comedians, Soundcloud rappers—amongst others—are now common in our everyday lives. But how has access to these massive digital communities and new platforms of expression influenced the arts as a whole? To answer this question we’ll explore the intricacies of social media platforms and their relationship to long-standing artistic traditions. We’ll base our discussions around influencers, artists, platforms, and genres that you’re interested in, and engage with critical works from writers like Guy Debord, Jean Baudrillard, and numerous scholarly articles. This complicated relationship between the arts and technology will be explored through writing and discussion, focusing on reflection, revision, and peer feedback. We’ll write several short papers, an 8-10 page argumentative research paper, and design one multi-modal project.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105-31 Feeling Good: Empathy and Ethics Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Genesee Hall Room 309 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Dustin Hannum
Description: Research into the origins and workings of human empathy has flowered in recent years. Scholars in fields from literature and law to psychology and neuroscience now study empathy’s role in human evolution, relationships, and political life. Is empathy a reliable guide to moral action? How should it factor into legal decisions regarding guilt and punishment? How is it influenced by race, gender, and other forms of cultural identity? Students will explore such questions as a way of developing as college-level writers and thinkers. They will watch films like A Time to Kill and Jo-Jo Rabbit and confront arguments about empathy from multiple disciplines and multiple genres (like op-eds and podcasts). They will then join in the discussion about these issues, composing a series of informal responses and short formal assignments leading up to an 8-10pp argumentative research paper. The class will emphasize all aspects of the writing process, including peer and instructor feedback, revision, and self-reflection.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105-32 What is Human Nature? Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Meliora Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Adam Stauffer
Description: Who are we? Why are we here? What, after all, is human nature? As a species, we have long wondered what drives us, what makes us unique, why we are the way we are. In this class, we will examine the question of human nature from various perspectives, including science, religion, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and animal studies. We will analyze these viewpoints using writing, critical reading, and discussion, drawing from authors like Edward O. Wilson, Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, Charles Darwin, and William James, as well as texts ranging from academic scholarship and popular journalism to fiction and film. Students will take part in informal writing, peer response, writer reflection, and revision. The course will culminate in an 8-10 page argumentative research paper.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105-35 Everyday Inequality: Exploring Privilege, Microagression, and Subtle Forms of Power Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Rush Rhees Library Room G108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Justin Coyne
Description: Why do we see racial, sexual and other forms of inequality when most people denounce racism and sexism? What responsibilities do present generations have for the injustices of past generations? How does one live ethically in an unjust world? To answer these questions, recent conversations about racism and sexism have become increasingly focused on subtle manifestations of power, including implicit bias, various forms of privilege, and microaggressions. Through formal and informal writing, you will enter the debates about these issues, exploring both the promise of these ways of understanding oppression, and also the ways in which some perspectives might overreach.  Course materials will include texts by Robin DiAngelo, Robert Boyers, John McWhorter, and others. In two shorter papers and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper, you will develop and refine responses to course materials through a writing process that will involve drafting, revision, peer response, and self-reflection.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105-38 Thinking about Thinking: The Human Brain at Work Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Rush Rhees Library Room G108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Suzanne Woodring
Description: The brain is complex. It is responsible for countless functions from storage and retrieval of memories to reflexive responses to stimuli. How does it allow us to interact with the world through sensory input and active output as we think, speak, and write? What happens in the brain when we shift between these everyday tasks? In this course, we will explore how these intertwined functions compare cognitively and how each contributes to communication from neurological, cognitive, and behavioral perspectives. The works of Steven Pinker, V. S. Ramachandran, as well as other scholarly and popular sources will be investigated through informal and formal writing experiences. This course emphasizes the importance of the writing process through writer-reflection, peer feedback, and revision. The culmination is an 8 to 10 page research paper where you will develop an argument that is informed by your perspective and the existing research. You will also highlight your findings through a multimodal presentation.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-40 Taylor Swift: The Writing 105 Era Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Harkness Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Amy Arbogast
Description: Over the past two decades, Taylor Swift has risen from aspiring country singer to “Fearless” global superstar.  “Long Story Short,” she has won countless awards for her music and has toured four continents.  What really distinguishes Swift, however, is the level of connection she achieves with her fans through songwriting, a “Love Story” they know “All Too Well.”  What is it about her writing that makes her music so effective and affecting?  How does she manage to “Shake It Off” when encountering criticism and “Begin Again” with each new era?  In our class, we will investigate the phenomenon of Taylor Swift through research, discussion, and writing.  We will analyze sources ranging from lyrics and music videos to scholarly articles and the Miss Americana documentary to explore Swift’s artistry and influence.  In essays, students will trace themes across Swift’s canon and explore the impact Swift has had on the music industry, popular culture, and the realms of politics and feminism.  We will take inspiration from her work to help us discover and refine our own authorial voices.  Peer response and reflective writing will help students grow as writers and the course will culminate in an 8-10 page argumentative research paper.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-41 Man, Machine, and Morality Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Lechase Room 141 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: James Otis
Description: Human culture and machine/technology culture are becoming more and more entangled in recent decades. In this course, we will engage a variety of questions regarding the social, political, and moral implications of this entanglement. Should autonomous systems be permitted in warfare? Should human enhancement technologies be controlled by parents or by governments? Should humanity strive to throw off the constraints of biological existence for something else entirely? What are genetic "diseases" and should we try to eliminate them? We will use the tools of research, writing, argument, and discussion to hone our views on these complex issues and learn to communicate our conclusions through writing. Students will develop a few short analytical and argumentative essays before working on an 8-10 page argumentative research essay. Those who successfully complete this course will be prepared to research and write for audiences across academic disciplines.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-42 Exploring Minimalism in an Era of Complexity Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Ting Zhang
Description: Originating in art in the 1950s, minimalism as a philosophy is prevalent in many areas of today’s society. What comes into your mind when hearing the word “minimalism”? Capsule wardrobe, zero-waste kitchen, or a break from the web? Why is minimalism, or the idea of having less, gaining popularity? How do notions such as contemporary values and technology come into play with people’s choices about minimalism? We will consider and develop questions like these by viewing and writing about minimalists’ blogs and videos. We will also develop our ideas by exploring scholarly articles from fields such as psychology, cultural economy, and environmental science. Furthermore, we will communicate and test our ideas with diverse audiences in the classroom through writing and sharing short essays, peer feedback, reflection, and revision. The culminating experience includes making a multimodal presentation and writing an 8-10 page argumentative research paper based on your interest within the course theme.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105-43 Everyday Inequality: Exploring Privilege, Microagression, and Subtle Forms of Power Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Lechase Room 122 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
14
Instructors: Justin Coyne
Description: Why do we see racial, sexual and other forms of inequality when most people denounce racism and sexism? What responsibilities do present generations have for the injustices of past generations? How does one live ethically in an unjust world? To answer these questions, recent conversations about racism and sexism have become increasingly focused on subtle manifestations of power, including implicit bias, various forms of privilege, and microaggressions. Through formal and informal writing, you will enter the debates about these issues, exploring both the promise of these ways of understanding oppression, and also the ways in which some perspectives might overreach.  Course materials will include texts by Robin DiAngelo, Robert Boyers, John McWhorter, and others. In two shorter papers and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper, you will develop and refine responses to course materials through a writing process that will involve drafting, revision, peer response, and self-reflection.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105-44 Comics and Culture Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Bausch & Lomb Room 315 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Karl Mohn
Description: In the US, comics are often relegated to the Sunday Funnies or denigrated as cartoons for children. But images can express ideas that are difficult to articulate in words, and comics can bring these modes together in beautiful and startling ways. But how do comics “work”? Why do we think of comics as kids’ books while most readers are adults? Are there stories that can only be told in comics? To answer these questions, we will engage in scholarly research and analyze exemplary texts including the biographical Holocaust narrative, Maus, and superheroes facing apocalypse in Watchmen. Through reading, writing, and discussion we will explore comics in terms of form and narrative; we’ll look at the specific strengths of comics in relation to other media. Alongside this exploration, students will develop academic writing strategies through self-reflection, peer review, and revision. Assignments will include an 8-10 page argumentative research paper and will culminate in a multimodal project of their own design.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105-45 Comics and Culture Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 306 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Karl Mohn
Description: In the US, comics are often relegated to the Sunday Funnies or denigrated as cartoons for children. But images can express ideas that are difficult to articulate in words, and comics can bring these modes together in beautiful and startling ways. But how do comics “work”? Why do we think of comics as kids’ books while most readers are adults? Are there stories that can only be told in comics? To answer these questions, we will engage in scholarly research and analyze exemplary texts including the biographical Holocaust narrative, Maus, and superheroes facing apocalypse in Watchmen. Through reading, writing, and discussion we will explore comics in terms of form and narrative; we’ll look at the specific strengths of comics in relation to other media. Alongside this exploration, students will develop academic writing strategies through self-reflection, peer review, and revision. Assignments will include an 8-10 page argumentative research paper and will culminate in a multimodal project of their own design.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105-46 Uncertainty Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Meliora Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Kathryn Phillips
Description: It might seem on first glance that knowledge requires certainty, but with a little reflection it comes to seem instead that we know quite a bit while being certain of extremely little. Experts are sometimes wrong, the data can be misleading or, more radically, we could be living in a Descartes-style massive delusion where our experiences do not match up to reality at all. In this class, we’ll use writing to investigate the role of uncertainty in academic research and our everyday lives. We’ll ask general questions such as: If certainty and knowledge are not synonymous, what is the value of certainty? Is certainty something to be sought after or avoided? How do certainty and uncertainty function in research across the humanities, social, and natural sciences? We will begin with immersive virtual reality experiences to test our senses of certainty. We will engage with a range of popular sources, including a podcast about Lyme disease and the scientific process, and work through research, primarily from philosophy and psychology, on knowledge, experience, and information exchange. Students will be expected to write several argumentative essays, which will go through a process of peer-response, self-reflection, and revision, culminating in an 8-10 page argumentative research paper.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105-48 Uncertainty Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lechase Room 148 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Kathryn Phillips
Description: It might seem on first glance that knowledge requires certainty, but with a little reflection it comes to seem instead that we know quite a bit while being certain of extremely little. Experts are sometimes wrong, the data can be misleading or, more radically, we could be living in a Descartes-style massive delusion where our experiences do not match up to reality at all. In this class, we’ll use writing to investigate the role of uncertainty in academic research and our everyday lives. We’ll ask general questions such as: If certainty and knowledge are not synonymous, what is the value of certainty? Is certainty something to be sought after or avoided? How do certainty and uncertainty function in research across the humanities, social, and natural sciences? We will begin with immersive virtual reality experiences to test our senses of certainty. We will engage with a range of popular sources, including a podcast about Lyme disease and the scientific process, and work through research, primarily from philosophy and psychology, on knowledge, experience, and information exchange. Students will be expected to write several argumentative essays, which will go through a process of peer-response, self-reflection, and revision, culminating in an 8-10 page argumentative research paper.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105-49 Problems in Authority and Expertise Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1815 1930 Morey Room 205 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Rob Rich
Description: One of the greatest intellectual problems of modern existence is knowing who and what to believe. Even as we pride ourselves on skepticism and independent thinking, we recognize the limits of our own knowledge and the pragmatic need to take some information on authority. Deferring to the judgment of experts may be a generally sound rule to follow, but applying this rule can get complicated. Is it possible for the work of experts to be corrupt, biased, or philosophically misguided? When are outsiders of an academic field intellectually justified in criticizing the conclusions of insiders? How can we distinguish legitimate criticism of authority from that which results from ignorance, paranoia, vested interest, or political bias? The readings for this course will include passages from works like Naomi Oreskes’s and Erik M. Conway’s Merchants of Doubt (2010) and Marion Nestle’s Unsavory Truth (2018). We will explore a variety of controversies in areas as diverse as human health, economics, law, and art criticism. Assignments will include both informal responses and formal essays, culminating with an argumentative research paper. Expectations include commitment to self-assessment, revision, and peer feedback.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-5 Art in the Digital Age Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Lechase Room 122 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Tessa Brunnenmeyer
Description: As the internet has boomed, the fine arts have begun to leave their homes in museums and galleries and find a new place on our smartphones and computer screens. Once a community for only “high society,” the high arts are now accessible across cultures, socioeconomic classes, generations, abilities, and geographical regions. Has this increase in accessibility and engagement in arts changed the way we interact with art? What we consider to be art? Who is a member of the “art world”? In this course, we will discuss responses to these questions, and develop our own, through the scholarly work of art historians, critics, and sociologists. We will also use TED Talks and other popular sources to guide us in considering the ways that the rise of digital arts, engagement through social media, and the advent of new technology like Non-Fungible Tokens (“NFTs”) have shifted our understanding of art, value, creativity, and ownership. Students will explore their own ideas through discussion, short informal and formal writing assignments, and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. For each formal assignment we will refine our ideas by utilizing peer feedback, self-reflection, and revision.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-50 The Climate Crisis: Discourses and Agendas Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lechase Room 161 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Ashley Conklin
Description: Greenwashing. Fast fashion. Post-consumer plastics. Climate change. Sustainability. We’re inundated with environmental concerns in the news, social media, our local communities, scientific publications, etc. When everyone has an environmental agenda, how do we evaluate this information for accuracy and reliability? Together, we’ll engage with these environmental issues and the communities who are most affected, and we’ll ask: What is the purpose of this information, what is its form, who has created it, and who is its intended audience? Using scientific, political, and cultural texts, we will analyze and write about how and why environmental information is disseminated. Course materials will include scholarly and popular articles, fiction, and social media, such as a Miyazaki film, Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass, Big Closets, Small Planet podcast, and Shiva and Mies’ Ecofeminism. Group work, discussion, and informal and formal writing assignments will help us explore our ideas about climate change and how we are influenced (or not) by discourses about the environment. Because writing is a process of refining and clarifying ideas, all formal assignments will undergo drafts, peer feedback, and reflection. One of these formal assignments will be an 8–10-page argumentative research paper developed from your own interests in the course topic.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-51 Writing and Living Mindfully Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 303 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Zachary Barber
Description: Mindfulness meditation decreases anxiety and improves academic performance. Might it therefore serve as a tool in the writing process? Meditators are less prone to racial stereotyping and implicit bias. Is mindfulness therefore an effective means of promoting political justice? Buddhists have claimed that mindfulness can be used to discern the ultimate nature of the self and reality. Does meditation really live up to the hype? This course aims to develop college-level writing skills and an understanding of the basic principles of academic writing by analyzing mindfulness meditation from a variety of intellectual perspectives. Spanning the fields of psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and religion, our investigation will center around whether being mindful of language, ideas, and experiences can be an aid to becoming better at writing and better at living. To stimulate the process of drafting, peer feedback, reflection, and revision, we will engage with texts such as Robert Wright’s “Why Buddhism Is True” and Sharon Salzberg’s “Real Happiness,” all the while employing meditative techniques to determine how they can help in our journey. The course will culminate with an 8- to 10-page argumentative research paper in which students develop an argument about a related issue of their choosing.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-52 Friendship Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Harkness Room 210 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Joey Kingsley
Description: How do you define friendship? Develop it? Practice it? Maintain it? Scholars in science, economics, and anthropology approach friendship as both socially and biologically valuable, studying its role in evolutionary survival, consumerism, social bonding, and community. How does friendship affect how we cooperate and compete, spend our money, and forge kinship? Students will explore such questions as a way of developing their own inquiries into friendship’s place in shaping personal and social identity. Course texts will include a range of scholarly articles; "Struggle for Existence" by Charles Darwin; "It's Who You Know" by John Terrell; "People Who Can Be Friends: Selves and Social Relationships" by James G. Carrier; and Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman. Students will research, write, and reflect in order to develop their own inquiries and enter into a scholarly conversation. Through informal writing, peer response, and revision, students will engage their own and others’ questions in order to develop and support their ideas in shorter assignments and a final 8-10 page argumentative research paper.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105-53 Problems in Authority and Expertise Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Morey Room 502 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Rob Rich
Description: One of the greatest intellectual problems of modern existence is knowing who and what to believe. Even as we pride ourselves on skepticism and independent thinking, we recognize the limits of our own knowledge and the pragmatic need to take some information on authority. Deferring to the judgment of experts may be a generally sound rule to follow, but applying this rule can get complicated. Is it possible for the work of experts to be corrupt, biased, or philosophically misguided? When are outsiders of an academic field intellectually justified in criticizing the conclusions of insiders? How can we distinguish legitimate criticism of authority from that which results from ignorance, paranoia, vested interest, or political bias? The readings for this course will include passages from works like Naomi Oreskes’s and Erik M. Conway’s Merchants of Doubt (2010) and Marion Nestle’s Unsavory Truth (2018). We will explore a variety of controversies in areas as diverse as human health, economics, law, and art criticism. Assignments will include both informal responses and formal essays, culminating with an argumentative research paper. Expectations include commitment to self-assessment, revision, and peer feedback.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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WRTG 105-6 Being Homo Sapiens Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lechase Room 143 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Stella Wang
Description: We call ourselves Homo sapiens sapiens: a knowing species that knows it knows. But why and when does the mind also go on autopilot, as noted by behavioral medicine, neuroscience, as well as ancient meditative traditions? How does this human awareness, or lack of it, inform stance and opinions? In the face of catastrophe, how may mindful awareness of one’s reactions help reveal important information about oneself, including feelings, needs, goals, relationships? We will consider these questions together by exploring poetry from that of Rumi to Mary Oliver to Derek Walcott and films such as E.T. and Ghost in the Shell. Other readings include studies on how the brain, mind, and heart work subtly to create realities—ones as fleeting as they can be profound and consequential. We invite everyone to join our interdisciplinary inquiry while cultivating academic writing skills through class discussion, formal and informal writing, peer review, revision, writer reflection, and a final argumentative research paper.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105-7 Altered Bodies Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 307 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Kate Soules
Description: What would it be like to host another species in our body? To what extent are we still ourselves if we inhabit a body other than our own? What if the body we have doesn’t belong to us? In this course, through formal and informal writing assignments, we will build and participate in a conversation about the radical ways in which bodies can be altered and the outcomes of such alterations. We will engage material in critical race theory by Saidiya Hartman, in gender studies by Jack Halberstam, and more, including fiction by Octavia Butler, writings by Molly McCully Brown, films Advantageous and Alien, and TED Talks, in order to write, think, and formulate our own questions in diverse disciplines about altered bodies. Students will write several argumentative essays, engage in peer feedback, reflection, and revision, to work toward an 8-10 page argumentative research paper.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105-9 Moral of the Story: Allegory as Form and Practice Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Lechase Room 143 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Natina Gilbert
Description: Allegories, while fictional, are always a commentary on the world outside their boundaries. Contemporary examples of allegories are wide and varied. George Orwell chose to critique Stalanism through animals in his aptly named novel Animal Farm. In The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin used the technology of science fiction to comment on cold war politics. While we will not read these specific authors, we will consider other varied manifestations of the allegory as a genre. Why are authors attracted to this form? What allows it to raise political or cultural questions? Through their writing, students will consider the lens of the allegorical form to engage with a diverse range of topics. At the same time, group discussion will be a place to consider the possibilities and limitations of the form itself. We will explore allegories through multiple genres from poetry, plays, and short stories like Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown,” to visual media like television episodes of The Twilight Zone and Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away. In responding to these works students will develop skills in academic writing and critical thinking. Assignments will include shorter essays, peer feedback, evidence of self-reflection, revisions, and a final 8-10 page argumentative research paper.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105A-1 The Truth is Out There: Conspiracy Theories and Alternative Facts Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Wegmans Room 1009 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Laura Whitebell
Description: Did the CIA order the assassination of John F. Kennedy? Were the 9/11 attacks really a series of planned, controlled detonations? And is it true that the Apollo moon landings were staged in a Hollywood studio? In this class we will analyze well-known conspiracy theories through news articles, radio broadcasts and scholarly sources, and consider how they help us to explore concepts like knowledge, power and a fear of the unknown. Critical reading assignments and the process of writing and revising will help to inspire discussion and develop knowledge as we share and test out ideas and arguments. Weekly writing workshops, peer feedback and self-reflection will provide a space to explore academic writing strategies as students draft and revise two argumentative essays. WRTG 105A will prepare students for the research proposal and 8-10 page argumentative research paper they will write for WRTG 105B.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105B-2 Reasoning & Writing in the College: Second Part of the WRTG 105A-WRTG 105B Sequence Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Rush Rhees Library Room 304E 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
9
Instructors: Katherine Schaefer
Description: The second-half of the WRT 105A-WRT 105B sequence, WRT 105B immerses students in the experience of academic writing, with a particular emphasis on analyzing, using, and documenting scholarly and non-scholarly texts. It provides instruction and practice in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise a proposal and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. Students will develop and test their ideas through discussion, informal writing, peer critiques and reflections. All sections of WRT 105A&B revolve around a theme and include a weekly writing group in which students do the work of writing with immediate support from the course instructor. WRT 105B students who have worked diligently but have not attained a grade of “B-“ or higher may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial program that allows students to continue working on their writing, raise their final grades, and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105B-3 Reasoning & Writing in the College: Second Part of the WRTG 105A-WRTG 105B Sequence Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Rush Rhees Library Room 304E 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
9
Instructors: Suzanne Woodring
Description: The second-half of the WRT 105A-WRT 105B sequence, WRT 105B immerses students in the experience of academic writing, with a particular emphasis on analyzing, using, and documenting scholarly and non-scholarly texts. It provides instruction and practice in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise a proposal and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. Students will develop and test their ideas through discussion, informal writing, peer critiques and reflections. All sections of WRT 105A&B revolve around a theme and include a weekly writing group in which students do the work of writing with immediate support from the course instructor. WRT 105B students who have worked diligently but have not attained a grade of “B-“ or higher may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial program that allows students to continue working on their writing, raise their final grades, and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105B-4 Reasoning & Writing in the College: Second Part of the WRTG 105A-WRTG 105B Sequence Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lechase Room 121 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
9
Instructors: Whitney Gegg-Harrison
Description: The second-half of the WRTG 105A-WRTG 105B sequence, WRTG 105B immerses students in the experience of academic writing, with a particular emphasis on analyzing, using, and documenting scholarly and non-scholarly texts. It provides instruction and practice in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise a proposal and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. Students will develop and test their ideas through discussion, informal writing, peer critiques and reflections. All sections of WRTG 105A&B revolve around a theme and include a weekly writing group in which students do the work of writing with immediate support from the course instructor. WRTG 105B students who have worked diligently but have not attained a grade of “B-“ or higher may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial program that allows students to continue working on their writing, raise their final grades, and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105B-5 Reasoning & Writing in the College: Second Part of the WRTG 105A-WRTG 105B Sequence Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Frederick Douglass Room 404 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Lisabeth Tinelli
Description: The second-half of the WRT 105A-WRT 105B sequence, WRT 105B immerses students in the experience of academic writing, with a particular emphasis on analyzing, using, and documenting scholarly and non-scholarly texts. It provides instruction and practice in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise a proposal and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. Students will develop and test their ideas through discussion, informal writing, peer critiques and reflections. All sections of WRT 105A&B revolve around a theme and include a weekly writing group in which students do the work of writing with immediate support from the course instructor. WRT 105B students who have worked diligently but have not attained a grade of “B-“ or higher may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial program that allows students to continue working on their writing, raise their final grades, and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105B-6 Reasoning & Writing in the College: Second Part of the WRTG 105A-WRTG 105B Sequence Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Genesee Hall Room 308 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
9
Instructors: Zachary Barber
Description: The second-half of the WRT 105A-WRT 105B sequence, WRT 105B immerses students in the experience of academic writing, with a particular emphasis on analyzing, using, and documenting scholarly and non-scholarly texts. It provides instruction and practice in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise a proposal and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. Students will develop and test their ideas through discussion, informal writing, peer critiques and reflections. All sections of WRT 105A&B revolve around a theme and include a weekly writing group in which students do the work of writing with immediate support from the course instructor. WRT 105B students who have worked diligently but have not attained a grade of “B-“ or higher may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial program that allows students to continue working on their writing, raise their final grades, and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105E-1 Expression at Large: The Arts in the Age of Social Media Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Frederick Douglass Room 403 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Orisa Morrice
Description: New opportunities for artistic expression have disseminated to the masses at an unprecedented rate through access to social media. Instagram photographers, Wordpress poets, YouTube comedians, Soundcloud rappers—amongst others—are now common in our everyday lives. But how has access to these massive digital communities and new platforms of expression influenced the arts as a whole? To answer this question we’ll explore the intricacies of social media platforms and their relationship to long-standing artistic traditions. We’ll base our discussions around influencers, artists, platforms, and genres that you’re interested in, and engage with critical works from writers like Guy Debord, Jean Baudrillard, and numerous scholarly articles. This complicated relationship between the arts and technology will be explored through writing and discussion, focusing on reflection, revision, and peer feedback. We’ll write several short papers, an 8-10 page argumentative research paper, and design one multi-modal project.

YOU MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION WRTG 105E-2 WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN SECTION

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105E-11 The Meaning of Life Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lechase Room 163 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Adam Stauffer
Description: What is the meaning of life? For centuries, a variety of thinkers, cultural traditions, and social movements have attempted to answer this question. In this class, we will consider “the meaning of life” as both a theoretical problem and lived experience using critical reading and discussion, drawing from texts by philosophers, journalists, and literary figures like Susan R. Wolf, Friedrich Nietzsche, Donna Haraway, Jill Lepore, and Albert Camus, as well as works ranging from academic scholarship and religious writings to fiction and film. This course invites students to enter this existential conversation by formulating their own ideas through discussion, in-class writing, and formal assignments, and drawing parallels between readings and the dilemmas we face in everyday life. Students will also take part in informal writing, peer response, writer reflection, and revision. The course will culminate in an 8-10 page argumentative research paper.  

YOU MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION WRTG 105E-28 WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN SECTION

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105E-13 Expression at Large: The Arts in the Age of Social Media Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Dewey Room 4162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Orisa Morrice
Description: New opportunities for artistic expression have disseminated to the masses at an unprecedented rate through access to social media. Instagram photographers, Wordpress poets, YouTube comedians, Soundcloud rappers—amongst others—are now common in our everyday lives. But how has access to these massive digital communities and new platforms of expression influenced the arts as a whole? To answer this question we’ll explore the intricacies of social media platforms and their relationship to long-standing artistic traditions. We’ll base our discussions around influencers, artists, platforms, and genres that you’re interested in, and engage with critical works from writers like Guy Debord, Jean Baudrillard, and numerous scholarly articles. This complicated relationship between the arts and technology will be explored through writing and discussion, focusing on reflection, revision, and peer feedback. We’ll write several short papers, an 8-10 page argumentative research paper, and design one multi-modal project.

YOU MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION WRTG 105E-16 WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN SECTION

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105E-17 Is Identity Destiny? Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1815 1930 Rush Rhees Library Room 304E 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
3 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Nasheed Zaman
Description:

It is often assumed that our environments control who we become. Also prevalent is the notion that we can control the shapes our cultural, national, gendered, even racial identities assume. What possible intersections can exist between such poles? What does the term “identity” mean for you, and how does that meaning compare to how it is defined—and debated—across the disciplines? How does the constant interplay of self-perception and others’ view of ourselves affect our sense of identity? How have Anglophone writers from the last two centuries—like Toni Morrison, Arundhati Roy, Kazuo Ishiguro, Edward Said, Stuart Hall, and Chinua Achebe—used writing to explore the meaning of different identity categories? Using peer-responses and reflections, we, too, shall try to use academic writing as we examine the various debates over this vexed term. Collaborating as an active learning community, we shall invent, draft, revise, and edit four essays, including an 8-10 page argumentative research paper.

YOU MUST REGISTER FOR WRTG 105E-18 RECITATION WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN SECTION.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105E-19 Is Identity Destiny? Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Rush Rhees Library Room 304E 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Nasheed Zaman
Description: It is often assumed that our environments control who we become. Also prevalent is the notion that we can control the shapes our cultural, national, gendered, even racial identities assume. What possible intersections can exist between such poles? What does the term “identity” mean for you, and how does that meaning compare to how it is defined—and debated—across the disciplines? How does the constant interplay of self-perception and others’ view of ourselves affect our sense of identity? How have Anglophone writers from the last two centuries—like Toni Morrison, Arundhati Roy, Kazuo Ishiguro, Edward Said, Stuart Hall, and Chinua Achebe—used writing to explore the meaning of different identity categories? Using peer-responses and reflections, we, too, shall try to use academic writing as we examine the various debates over this vexed term. Collaborating as an active learning community, we shall invent, draft, revise, and edit four essays, including an 8-10 page argumentative research paper.

YOU MUST REGISTER FOR WRTG 105E-22 RECITATION WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN SECTION.

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105E-20 Man, Machine, and Morality Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lechase Room 122 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: James Otis
Description:

Human culture and machine/technology culture are becoming more and more entangled in recent decades. In this course, we will engage a variety of questions regarding the social, political, and moral implications of this entanglement. Should autonomous systems be permitted in warfare? Should human enhancement technologies be controlled by parents or by governments? Should humanity strive to throw off the constraints of biological existence for something else entirely? What are genetic "diseases" and should we try to eliminate them? We will use the tools of research, writing, argument, and discussion to hone our views on these complex issues and learn to communicate our conclusions through writing. Students will develop two analytical and argumentative essays during this course. Successful completion of the course will prepare students for the research proposal and 8-10 page argumentative research paper.

YOU MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION WRTG 105E-21 REC WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN COURSE

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105E-24 Man, Machine, and Morality Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Rush Rhees Library Room 304E 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: James Otis
Description: Human culture and machine/technology culture are becoming more and more entangled in recent decades. In this course, we will engage a variety of questions regarding the social, political, and moral implications of this entanglement. Should autonomous systems be permitted in warfare? Should human enhancement technologies be controlled by parents or by governments? Should humanity strive to throw off the constraints of biological existence for something else entirely? What are genetic "diseases" and should we try to eliminate them? We will use the tools of research, writing, argument, and discussion to hone our views on these complex issues and learn to communicate our conclusions through writing. Students will develop two analytical and argumentative essays during this course. Successful completion of the course will prepare students for the research proposal and 8-10 page argumentative research paper.

YOU MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION WRTG 105E-25 REC WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN COURSE

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105E-3 Impacts of Engineering Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Meliora Room 218 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Lisabeth Tinelli
Description:

Advancements in engineering affect almost every aspect of our society, but what is the nature of this impact? How do engineering solutions influence the social, cultural, and environmental contexts within which they are implemented? Students will explore questions such as these by using writing as a tool for inquiry, discovery, and knowledge construction. In constructing new knowledge, students will also learn how to navigate ethical issues around proper attribution of ideas, as this is important to both writers and engineers. Class discussions, readings, and informal assignments will work together to inform the drafting and revision of two short argumentative essays, an 8-10 page research paper, and a multimodal composition for a public audience. Through peer response and self-assessment, students will learn how to effectively communicate with a variety of audiences.

YOU MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION WRTG 105E-5 WHEN REGISTERING FOR THIS SECTION

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105E-32 Is Identity Destiny? Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Genesee Hall Room 323 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Nasheed Zaman
Description: It is often assumed that our environments control who we become. Also prevalent is the notion that we can control the shapes our cultural, national, gendered, even racial identities assume. What possible intersections can exist between such poles? What does the term “identity” mean for you, and how does that meaning compare to how it is defined—and debated—across the disciplines? How does the constant interplay of self-perception and others’ view of ourselves affect our sense of identity? How have Anglophone writers from the last two centuries—like Toni Morrison, Arundhati Roy, Kazuo Ishiguro, Edward Said, Stuart Hall, and Chinua Achebe—used writing to explore the meaning of different identity categories? Using peer-responses and reflections, we, too, shall try to use academic writing as we examine the various debates over this vexed term. Collaborating as an active learning community, we shall invent, draft, revise, and edit four essays, including an 8-10 page argumentative research paper.

YOU MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION WRTG 105E-33 WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN SECTION

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105E-4 Thinking about Thinking: The Human Brain at Work Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Meliora Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Suzanne Woodring
Description: The brain is complex. It is responsible for countless functions from storage and retrieval of memories to reflexive responses to stimuli. How does it allow us to interact with the world through sensory input and active output as we think, speak, and write? What happens in the brain when we shift between these everyday tasks? In this course, we will explore how these intertwined functions compare cognitively and how each contributes to communication from neurological, cognitive, and behavioral perspectives. The works of Steven Pinker, V. S. Ramachandran, as well as other scholarly and popular sources will be investigated through informal and formal writing experiences. This course emphasizes the importance of the writing process through writer-reflection, peer feedback, and revision. The culmination is an 8 to 10 page research paper where you will develop an argument that is informed by your perspective and the existing research. You will also highlight your findings through a multimodal presentation.

YOU MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION WRTG 105E-23 WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN SECTION

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 105E-41 Language as Window into Mind Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Meliora Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Whitney Gegg-Harrison
Description: Language lets us share with others thoughts once trapped inside our own mind, but it’s also been argued to shape or constrain those thoughts. Are our minds shaped by the language we speak? Does language make the human mind special? How should we think about developments in AI and machine translation that have brought machines closer to using language? Could these machines have minds, and how would we know? Our interdisciplinary inquiry will consider a wide variety of perspectives — from psychology, linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience, and AI — and also explore how these themes play out in TV, movies, and literature. These discussions and readings will inform the drafting and revision of two short argumentative papers. We’ll draw upon concepts from cognitive science to develop ideas about how to produce effective written arguments that are clear and engaging for readers, and work to ensure each student builds confidence in their role as academic writers.

YOU MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION WRTG 105E-42 WHEN REGISTERING FOR THIS SECTION

To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 108-1 Workshop in Writing Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1150 1240 Frederick Douglass Room 307 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
3
Instructors: Whitney Gegg-Harrison
Description: Offers ongoing practice and instruction in writing and critiquing writing. Students meet weekly with a writing center consultant to work on forms of academic writing relevant to their spring coursework. These forms may include summaries, critical responses, argumentative essays, and lab reports, among others. Students may also choose to revise essays completed in previous semesters or work on other non-fiction projects. Guided by a writing center consultant, students plan, draft and revise their writing, critique each other's work, assess their own writing, and participate in group session on common writing issues. The semester's work will culminate in a final portfolio that features polished essays and an overall self-assessment.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 247-1 Spoken Communication & Peer Tutoring Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Lechase Room 184 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
7
Instructors: Amy Arbogast
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: Prepares selected sophomores, juniors, and eligible first-year students for work as Speaking Fellows. This course focuses not only on the skill of public speaking, but also on peer tutoring and assisting students with their own forms of spoken communication. In this course, we will examine various components of presentations, including effective use of visual aids and professional delivery styles. We will also explore several types of spoken communication for different purposes and audiences, including argumentative and descriptive speeches, interviews, and group presentations. Through analyzing, studying the construction of, and creating and delivering their own presentations, students will improve their own speaking styles and develop the skills necessary to aid their peers in constructing and revising presentations. By the end of the semester, students should be ready to take on their own hours as peer tutors. This course satisfies a requirement for the Citation for Achievement in College Leadership.

Restrictions: Instructor's permission required

Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 250-2 Modern English Grammar Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Hylan Building Room 203 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: LING 161-1 (P), WRTG 250-2
Instructors: Solveiga Armoskaite
Description: This course is a comprehensive review of the grammar of Modern Standard English. The course will be of interest to those who wish to sharpen their language skills, or to know more about the workings of the English language whether for practical, cognitive or creative ends. Drawing on work in mostly pre-theoretical, descriptive linguistics this course reveals the mechanics of Standard English structure, with occasional detours into the finesse of usage across registers (dialect to slang). Students will learn to develop the ability to see patterns in grammar, as well as its structural possibilities and limits. Assignments will regularly involve reflection on form, usage and speaker judgments. Through a final project, students will investigate some aspect of an English variety available to them. Throughout, students will be working with their data samples of English to explore how speaker choices lead to particular grammatical structures or yield ungrammaticality. Background in linguistics or grammar not needed.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 252-1 Principles & Practices of Copyediting Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Goergen Hall Room 110 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: ENGL 136-1, WRTG 252-1 (P)
Instructors: Dustin Hannum
Description: While the term copyediting? may be associated with journalism or literary fiction, in fact it is a vital component of the publication of almost any textual materialsfrom scholarly and popular publishing in arts and sciences to corporate and technical communications. So what do copy editors do? Is copyediting simply about enforcing rules of correctness? When is it okay to break those rules, or to allow others to do so, and what guides such decisions? How do copy editors understand and negotiate the relationships and interests of readers, writers, and the publications they work for? How has the information age changed the way copy editors think about and approach textual editing? In this class we will address both the principles and practices of copyediting. Students will learn the principles that guide copy editors, and then put these principles into use in a workshop setting, practicing copyediting in a variety of contexts, including digital communications.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 261-1 Writing in a Digital World Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lechase Room 148 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: DMST 250-1, ENGL 288-1, WRTG 261-1 (P)
Instructors: Lisabeth Tinelli
Description: The purpose of writing in a digital world is to engage with a broader community around a topic of interest and contribute to public knowledge. In this course, students are invited to dig deeply into a question of interest, write for a public audience, and use the Internet as an archive of information waiting to be discovered, analyzed, and written about. Students can draw on pre-existing research interests from their majors or develop a line of inquiry stemming from class discussions, writing, and research. In order to gain experience writing to a range of readers, students will engage in a writing process informed by peer review, self-assessment, and revision. Shorter writing assignments will help students develop and refine ideas as they transform texts for different audiences. The final research project will be multimodal, published for a public audience, and should demonstrate your ability to think critically about a topic and effectively communicate that knowledge to a range of readers.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 262-2 What Do You Mean I Can't Do That? Learning to Write Like an "Insider" in Your Discipline(s) Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Rush Rhees Library Room G108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: BIOL 274W-3, WRTG 262-2 (P)
Instructors: Katherine Schaefer
Description: Drawing on the concepts of discourse community and rhetorical genre analysis (e.g., Bazerman, Berkenhotter & Huckin, Swales), this course investigates ways of understanding the choices writers make when communicating about the natural, social, or applied sciences, with the goal of better understanding how to read and write as an insider in your chosen discipline. You will develop a technical vocabulary and set of skills that allow you to describe recurring patterns and writer choices within those patterns. Using these tools, and talking to experts in your chosen discipline(s), you will investigate disciplinary and interdisciplinary boundaries, how writers convey meaning in different situations, and why they make the writing choices they do. Through a final research project of your choice, you will practice using what you have learned to communicate the results of your own research. This course is especially suitable for dual-major students, or those heading to graduate or health professions schools.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement

Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 263-1 Translation: Interpreting & Adapting Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Hylan Building Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: ENGL 289-1, LTST 263-1, WRTG 263-1 (P)
Instructors: Stella Wang
Description: This course takes up translation process as an object of study. How do translators work? What opportunities and constraints are present for freelance, specialist, or professional translators? To what extent do translators not only transmit but actively create knowledge and build community via their work of interpreting and adapting? We'll explore a range of potentially high-stakes cases involving textual, audiovisual, and multimodal renditions of a source text. These may include translating an ad or museum label; subbing a TED Talk or performance; dubbing in anime or games; interpreting for business, medical, or other purposes. Along with course readings and short experimental translations, students will work with our paraprofessional consultants and community partners in SW Rochester to craft final projects that provide a meaningful extension of course learning to real-world issues (Counts toward the Citation in Community-Engaged Scholarship; see Authentically Urban, Virtually Global: Southwest Rochester).
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 272-1 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Biology and Public Health Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 940 1055 Bausch & Lomb Room 315 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: BIOL 272W-1, WRTG 272-1 (P)
Instructors: Katherine Schaefer
Description: This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. The class is suitable for juniors and seniors and can be used to fulfill 1 of the 2 required Upper-Level Writing experiences in biology or public health. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 272-2 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Biology and Public Health Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1525 1640 Hylan Building Room 306 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: BIOL 272W-2, WRTG 272-2 (P)
Instructors: Katherine Schaefer
Description: This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. The class is suitable for juniors and seniors and can be used to fulfill 1 of the 2 required Upper-Level Writing experiences in biology or public health. NOTE: every other class will take place online. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 273-10 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Engineering Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1025 1140 Dewey Room 4162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Laura Jones
Description: This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 273-11 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Engineering Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1400 1515 Dewey Room 4162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Karl Mohn
Description: This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 273-12 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Engineering Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1525 1640 Dewey Room 4162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Kellie Hernandez
Description: This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 273-13 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Engineering Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1515 Dewey Room 4162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Kellie Hernandez
Description: This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 273-14 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Engineering Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1525 1640 Dewey Room 4162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
14
Instructors: Kellie Hernandez
Description: This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 273-18 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Engineering Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1105 1220 Dewey Room 4162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Suzanne Woodring
Description: This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 273-19 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Engineering Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1650 1805 Dewey Room 4162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Laura Jones
Description: This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 273-2 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Engineering Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1400 1515 Hylan Building Room 206 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Whitney Gegg-Harrison
Description: This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 273-21 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Engineering Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 900 1015 Frederick Douglass Room 404 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Lisabeth Tinelli
Description: This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 273-22 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Engineering Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1525 1640 Lechase Room 184 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Catherine Schmied Towsley
Description: This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 273-3 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Engineering Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1025 1140 Lechase Room 143 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
7 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Laura Whitebell
Description: This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; students should have completed a minimum of 2 engineering or computer science courses in their major. All others require permission of the instructor. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 273-4 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Engineering Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1105 1220 Dewey Room 4162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
14 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Amy Arbogast
Description: This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major.

Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 273-5 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Engineering Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 940 1055 Dewey Room 4162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Amy Arbogast
Description: This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; students should have completed a minimum of 2 engineering or computer science courses in their major. All others require permission of the instructor. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 273-6 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Engineering Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1150 1305 Dewey Room 4162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Karl Mohn
Description: This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; students should have completed a minimum of 2 engineering or computer science courses in their major. All others require permission of the instructor. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 273-7 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Engineering Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1150 1305 Dewey Room 4162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Lisabeth Tinelli
Description: This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; students should have completed a minimum of 2 engineering or computer science courses in their major. All others require permission of the instructor. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 273-8 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Engineering Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1150 1305 Hylan Building Room 105 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Adam Stauffer
Description: This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; students should have completed a minimum of 2 engineering or computer science courses in their major. All others require permission of the instructor. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 274-1 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Psychology Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1525 1640 Dewey Room 4162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: PSYC 274W-1, WRTG 274-1 (P)
Instructors: Kathryn Phillips
Description: This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. The class can be used to fulfill 1 of 2 required Upper-Level Writing experiences in psychology, and is suitable for junior and senior psychology majors; all others require instructor permission.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 277-1 Communicating Your Professional Identity - Cross-Disciplinary Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 1525 1640 Lechase Room 163 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
15
Instructors: Catherine Schmied Towsley
Description: This interactive course teaches real life communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for second-semester sophomores, juniors and first-semester seniors; all others require permission of the instructor. All majors welcome. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
Offered: Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
WRTG 572-1 Practicum In Teaching Of Writing Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 900 1015 Rush Rhees Library Room G121A 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: ENGL 572-1, WRTG 572-1 (P)
Instructors: Matt Bayne; Ashley Conklin
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The yearlong practicum has two components, a practicum group, which is led by a 571 course instructor, and a mentor group, which is led by an experienced WSAP instructor. These two groups involve new instructors in a combination of small group meetings, class observations, individual meetings, and workshops designed to support and further educate new instructors. Small group meetings, classroom observations, and individual meetings offer new teachers a chance to gain different perspectives on their teaching, identify their teaching strengths, and work out solutions to teaching difficulties. The larger goal of all meetings is to encourage instructors to work with colleagues across the disciplines to create a supportive and intellectually challenging community, a community that they can call on throughout their career as educators.
Offered: Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Accounting
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ACC 201-1 Financial Accounting Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Bausch & Lomb Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
114 		Capacity     
120
Instructors: Rajeshwari Iyer
Description: This course is an introduction to the principles and procedures used by organizations to record economic transactions that affect them, and to report the net effect of these transactions to interested external parties. The course will cover the judgment inherent in certain aspects of the recording and reporting process, the acceptable alternatives for recording given transactions, and the effect these judgments and alternatives have on comparisons of the financial reports for different organizations, and on the usefulness of financial reports in general. In conjunction with this, consideration will be given to the failure of financial reports to fully incorporate the economic condition of an organization, and the reason for this.

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Iyer will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ACC 201-2 Financial Accounting Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Bausch & Lomb Room 109 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
120 		Capacity     
120
Instructors: Rajeshwari Iyer
Description: This course is an introduction to the principles and procedures used by organizations to record economic transactions that affect them, and to report the net effect of these transactions to interested external parties. The course will cover the judgment inherent in certain aspects of the recording and reporting process, the acceptable alternatives for recording given transactions, and the effect these judgments and alternatives have on comparisons of the financial reports for different organizations, and on the usefulness of financial reports in general. In conjunction with this, consideration will be given to the failure of financial reports to fully incorporate the economic condition of an organization, and the reason for this.

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Iyer will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ACC 221-1 Managerial Accounting Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Dewey Room 1101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
109 		Capacity     
120
Instructors: Liang Xiao
Description: ACC 221 provides students with a framework to understand and use internal reporting. It is not a course about cost accounting (i.e., journal entries, accounting for scrap etc.). Rather, it trains students to utilize internal accounting in strategic decision making with an aim to improving profitability and efficiency. Most employers expect leading business school candidates to have a high aptitude for understanding, performing and applying financial analyses, including cost analyses. Pricing decisions require cost analyses. Corporate finance is responsible for the firms financial reporting and control systems. Investment banks and consulting firms sell their services to clients, on the ability of their personnel to do careful, comprehensive financial analyses. Managing and motivating people in organizations involve developing appropriate performance measures. ACC 221 teaches you how to apply economics, coupled with the firms accounting system, to make decisions and motivate people in organizations.

Prerequisite: ACC201

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Xiao will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ACC 222-1 Financial Statement Analysis Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1400 1515 Schlegel Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
69 		Capacity     
73
Instructors: Charles Wasley
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The course objective is to develop and sharpen students ability to use financial information to perform a wide variety of applied quantitative economic and financial analysis. The applied financial analysis and valuation techniques covered in this course will prepare students for a wide variety of careers that require the quantitative analysis of financial information. For example (but not limited to), careers in the financial industry such as investment banking, equity research and credit research. The applied financial analysis and valuation techniques covered in this course include common-size and trend analysis, ratio analysis, modeling the predictable operating cash flow effects of sales growth, models of financial distress and bankruptcy, forecasting models, and a number of equity valuation models.

Pre-Requisite: ACC 201 & FIN 205

This course is now full and will require you go through the waitlist process below.

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Wasley will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ACC 225-1 Intermediate Accounting II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
36
Instructors: Heidi Tribunella
Description: This course builds upon the underlying framework and concepts of ACC201 Financial Accounting. This course is one of two courses in intermediate accounting. The course delves into the reporting of various liability and equity accounts on the balance sheet, such as: current liabilities, bonds, long-term notes payable, contributed capital and retained earnings. Revenue recognition, accounting for income taxes, post-retirement benefits and leases are also covered. The course concludes with in depth coverage of the statement of cash flows. Throughout the course, the differences between treatment under U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are discussed.

Pre-Requisite: ACC 201 & ACC 224

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Tribunella will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ACC 228-1 Corporate, Gift & Estate Tax Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10 		Capacity     
40
Instructors: Glenn Huels
Description: This course will build upon some of the concepts learned in ACC227 Individual Income Tax, as it looks at corporate, gift and estate taxes. It will provide an overview of the US tax system and how it is applied to corporations, partnerships and Estates. Detailed topics will include, but are not limited to, corporate tax, taxation of partnerships and S Corporations, gift taxes and estate taxes.

Pre-Requisite: ACC 201, ACC 224, ACC 225, and ACC 227

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Huels will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email
Offered: Fall Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering New Department/Subject
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CIS 191-1 Introduction to Programming for Business Analytics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
40 		Capacity     
45
Instructors: Jing Zhang
Description: Created in 1989, Python is now one of the most popular programming languages in the world, attributable to its simplicity and flexibility.  Data Analysts (including Business and Marketing Analysts, Data Scientists, Management Consultants, and Product Managers) can use Python (in combination with powerful packages including NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, and Seaborn) to import, explore, manipulate, analyze, and visualize data.  If you are an undergraduate business student with little to no programming experience, this class is designed for you.  By the end of this course, you will be able to: 1.) Think like a computer programmer, with the practiced ability to break down complex problems into a series of smaller steps and pseudocode, 2.) Write and execute basic computer programs using the Python programming language to implement your pseudocode and achieve your desired outcomes, and 3.) Perform basic business data analytics using Python to import, explore, manipulate, analyze, and visualize data in preparation for more advanced study in subsequent courses. This course will be taught fully online.

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Zhang will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CIS 211-1 Business Modeling with Excel Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Gavett Hall Room 208 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
46 		Capacity     
46
Instructors: Daniel Keating
Description: The objective of this class is to develop your ability to model business problems in quantitative terms, and analyze them for understanding, insight, and good solutions. The primary focus will be on problem formulation and analysis identifying the key components of a decision problem, structuring it, translating it into an analytical model, and working with the model to generate useful insights.

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Keating will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CIS 211-2 Business Modeling with Excel Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Gavett Hall Room 208 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
45 		Capacity     
45
Instructors: Daniel Keating
Description: The objective of this class is to develop your ability to model business problems in quantitative terms, and analyze them for understanding, insight, and good solutions. The primary focus will be on problem formulation and analysis identifying the key components of a decision problem, structuring it, translating it into an analytical model, and working with the model to generate useful insights.

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Keating will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CIS 220-1 Business Information Systems & Analytics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Dewey Room 2162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
88 		Capacity     
90
Instructors: Roy Jones
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course focuses on use and management of information systems in organizations. Topics include the theoretical foundations underlying management information systems and their vital role in the modern business environment, innovative models of digital business and the business impact of the Internet and social media; the nature and operation of large-scale-enterprise information systems; database management systems; data visualization, data mining, and modern quantitative business modeling concepts and analysis.

Not open to first year students.

** If the section is full, please contact ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Jones will not be able to override additional students. All request must go through the previously mentioned email. **
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CIS 242-1 Predictive Analytics for Business Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Computer Studies Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
63 		Capacity     
85
Instructors: Zachary Roth
Description: The course introduces students to fundamental concepts, methodologies, and software tools for applying machine learning algorithms for business analytics. The course covers core machine learning algorithms for supervised and unsupervised learning, and Python programming tools with emphasis on libraries for data analysis and machine learning. Topics include data pre-processing, mining frequent patterns, association and correlation, classification, and cluster analysis.

Prerequisite: CIS 191 or equivalent

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Cannon will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CIS 390A-2 Supervised Teaching CIS 211 Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
2
Instructors: Daniel Keating
Description: Supervised teaching for CIS courses.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Entrepreneurship
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
ENT 223-1 Planning & Growing a Business Venture Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1650 1930 Dewey Room 2110E 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
32 		Capacity     
45
Instructors: Elizabeth Meyer
Description: This course provides a dynamic, practical, hands-on approach that encourages students to immerse themselves in the vision, research, and planning aspects of a new venture. It is designed to teach students how to develop an idea, then to research, assess, and write detailed plans that can be used to create successful new ventures. Students will learn effective entrepreneurial practice that will make a difference in the ultimate success or failure of the entrepreneurial process.

Pre-requisite: ENT 101

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Meyer will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Summer
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ENT 227-1 Fundamentals of Social Entrepreneurship Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Lechase Room 143 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
23
Instructors: Andras Miklos
Description: This course deals with the social impact of business and entrepreneurship. We will use a blend of class discussions, case studies and lectures to explore the theory and practice of responsible business. Questions to be discussed include the following. What role can business play in meeting societal needs in improving health and education, protecting the environment or eradicating poverty? Do firms have a responsibility to help meet these needs? What are the limits of what can and should be done through business rather than through NGOs, development agencies or international institutions? How can we identify and measure the impact of business? We will look at these questions in the context of topics such as environmental sustainability, poverty and inequality, health promotion, lobbying, impact investing, advertising, fake news, nudging, machine learning and big data, and markets for organs. Offered every other year.

 

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Miklos will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Financial
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
FIN 205-1 Financial Management Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Dewey Room 1101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
89 		Capacity     
160
Instructors: Derek Mohr
Description: This course centers on how a firm is funded, and on how financial management can help maximize the financial rewards to those who own the firm, while meeting the obligations of the firm to other stakeholders. The effect of timing on the value of cash flows is developed at length, and is applied to the valuation of bonds and stocks. Various facets of stocks and bonds are also introduced, and a brief overview of the stock market is presented. Cash flow concepts are then incorporated into a development of how investment opportunities are analyzed, which includes a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses associated with different analytical methods. The topics of capital market efficiency and portfolio theory are then discussed and tied in to the concept of what investors have sacrificed in order to invest in a firm. This, in turn, is tied in to which investments are worthwhile to a firm's owners. In covering this material, recent business examples and financial research will be featured to supplement the textbook.

Prerequisites: ECON108 or equivalent and one statistics course.

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Mohr will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
FIN 205-2 Financial Management Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Goergen Hall Room 101 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
86 		Capacity     
120
Instructors: Derek Mohr
Description: This course centers on how a firm is funded, and on how financial management can help maximize the financial rewards to those who own the firm, while meeting the obligations of the firm to other stakeholders. The effect of timing on the value of cash flows is developed at length, and is applied to the valuation of bonds and stocks. Various facets of stocks and bonds are also introduced, and a brief overview of the stock market is presented. Cash flow concepts are then incorporated into a development of how investment opportunities are analyzed, which includes a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses associated with different analytical methods. The topics of capital market efficiency and portfolio theory are then discussed and tied in to the concept of what investors have sacrificed in order to invest in a firm. This, in turn, is tied in to which investments are worthwhile to a firm's owners. In covering this material, recent business examples and financial research will be featured to supplement the textbook.

Prerequisites: ECON108 or equivalent and one statistics course.

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Mohr will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
FIN 206-1 Investments Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Hutchison Hall Room 140 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
58 		Capacity     
85
Instructors: Giulio Trigilia
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: This course covers the fundamental ideas and tools of modern investment theories, and applies them to concrete portfolio management problems. We begin with an overview of securities markets. We then study how to discount cash flows, especially for fixed income securities, and introduce the concept of arbitrage. The investment theory part starts from partial equilibrium (mean-variance analysis) and proceeds with general equilibrium (CAPM). We test it with the data, discuss factor models and anomalies, and use it to evaluate the efficiency of markets. We then study derivatives (options, forwards, futures and swaps). Replication strategies are used to price derivatives, and the binomial model of option pricing is derived. We conclude with the Black-Scholes formula. Throughout the course, we shall cover at least 2 case studies. IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED THAT STUDENTS COMPLETE FIN206 PRIOR TO TAKING MATH210/FIN 224.

Pre-Requisite: FIN 205. This course is not open to first year students.

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Trigilia will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
FIN 206-2 Investments Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Hutchison Hall Room 140 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
49 		Capacity     
81
Instructors: Giulio Trigilia
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: This course covers the fundamental ideas and tools of modern investment theories, and applies them to concrete portfolio management problems. We begin with an overview of securities markets. We then study how to discount cash flows, especially for fixed income securities, and introduce the concept of arbitrage. The investment theory part starts from partial equilibrium (mean-variance analysis) and proceeds with general equilibrium (CAPM). We test it with the data, discuss factor models and anomalies, and use it to evaluate the efficiency of markets. We then study derivatives (options, forwards, futures and swaps). Replication strategies are used to price derivatives, and the binomial model of option pricing is derived. We conclude with the Black-Scholes formula. Throughout the course, we shall cover at least 2 case studies.IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED THAT STUDENTS COMPLETE FIN206 PRIOR TO TAKING MTH210.

Pre-Requisite: FIN 205. This course is not open to first year students.

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Trigilia will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
FIN 244-1 Asset Management Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1815 1930 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
34 		Capacity     
60
Instructors: Richard Insalaco
Description: The course provides students with a fundamental understanding of the principles and analytics of portfolio management using a variety of asset classes, as applied to both institutional and private clients. Particular emphasis will be placed upon investing in so-called “alternative asset classes” such as hedge funds, private equity, and venture capital, among others.

This course should be of great interest to anyone aspiring to a career in asset, portfolio, private wealth, endowment, foundation, sovereign wealth, or pension fund management. Students pursuing careers with asset managers in public equity, fixed income, private equity, or hedge funds will find the class highly beneficial. A fundamental understanding of the issues in asset management, whether institutional or retail, will also be helpful in other areas of finance such as investment banking, corporate treasury / finance, insurance, accounting and personal finance, as well as operations and marketing in these types of firms. In addition, students will learn how to better manage their future personal wealth. Students wishing to learn more about hedge funds, private equity, or venture capital will find this course particularly useful. As I am a practitioner, this class will focus on the more practical aspects of asset management to prepare students for the actual demands of a job in the industry.

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Insalaco will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Spring
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FIN 246-1 Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain & FinTech Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Meliora Room 221 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
37 		Capacity     
48
Instructors: Derek Mohr
Description: This course provides an overview of the current state of blockchain, cryptocurrencies and “FinTech”, which is generally defined as using this technology to transform the financial industry. The course combines aspects of many disciplines, including computer programming, mathematics, finance, economics and exotic fields like quantum physics. As computing power increases and as society moves towards social networked solutions to many business problems, there is an increasing role for technological solutions to traditional finance questions such as payments, loans, insurance and financial markets. FinTech solutions based on blockchain raise numerous questions about legal rules and enforcement and, more generally, long-term economic success (e.g., how many of the hundreds of different payment systems and cryptocurrencies will survive? Are DeFi loans the “safe” way to earn from pledging your crypto?).

Pre-Requisite: FIN 205

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Mohr will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Law
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
LAW 250-1 Bus Law: Trans & Other Topic Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Dewey Room 2110E 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
26 		Capacity     
45
Instructors: Paul Shanahan
Description: A study of principles of law significant to business organizations including international business transactions, privacy law, bankruptcy law, securities law, intellectual property law, secured transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and environmental law. The course will focus on external and internal legal factors that business managers must consider when making appropriate business decisions. Throughout the course, the emphasis is on developing an understanding of the reasoning process used by business managers to resolve complex business issues and to implement policies to minimize legal liability and maximize business owner value. Case study will be a major component of the course.

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Shanahan will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Marketing
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MKT 203-1 Principles of Marketing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Bausch & Lomb Room 106 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
67 		Capacity     
71
Instructors: John Schloff
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course provides a broad overview of the strategic marketing function in the modern organization, with central focus on customers and the management of a firms integrated response to their needs, behaviors and expectations. Topics demonstrate the robust nature of basic marketing theory and its application in a dynamic 21st Century, with emphasis on technology-enabled relationships across diverse customer touch points. The second half of the course covers practical elements of product and service brand management in both consumer and commercial market settings. The use of business simulations in the class bring the concepts to life and provide an applied perspective for the students.

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Schloff will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MKT 203-2 Principles of Marketing Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
64 		Capacity     
70
Instructors: John Schloff
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course provides a broad overview of the strategic marketing function in the modern organization, with central focus on customers and the management of a firms integrated response to their needs, behaviors and expectations. Topics demonstrate the robust nature of basic marketing theory and its application in a dynamic 21st Century, with emphasis on technology-enabled relationships across diverse customer touch points. The second half of the course covers practical elements of product and service brand management in both consumer and commercial market settings. The use of business simulations in the class bring the concepts to life and provide an applied perspective for the students.

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Schlwill not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MKT 213-1 Marketing Projects and Cases Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Hylan Building Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: John Schloff
Restrictions: Not open to First Year and Sophomore - AS&E
Description: This course is an advanced seminar in applied marketing techniques and consulting agency work, offering students practical experience in managing and fulfilling client expectations. Student teams conduct marketing projects for commercial or not-for-profit client organizations, providing real-world deliverables and recommendations by semesters end. Case readings and executive guest speakers provide discussion opportunities in support of successful needs assessment, project design, execution and professional report presentation. Prerequisites: MKT203 and One Additional Marketing Course

Mkt 212 Recommended

Restrictions: Not Open to First Years or Sophomores

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Schloff will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MKT 233-1 Advertising & Promotional Strategy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 1400 1640 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
53 		Capacity     
70
Instructors: James Prinzi
Description: This course examines how advertising and integrated marketing programs drive business strategy through both traditional and online advertising and social media. Online accessibility is covered. Business cases are used throughout the course, as well as guest speakers from various areas of agencies. Student teams work on optimizing social media plans for local small businesses and not-for-profits.

Pre-Requisite: MKT 203

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Prinzi will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Summer
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MKT 237-1 Digital Marketing Strategies Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
60 		Capacity     
62
Instructors: Elena Nescio
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: This course will provide students of any business discipline a broad understanding of how digital marketing strategies, tools and tactics interact with and impact consumer and company behavior. At the same time, the course integrates a degree of depth within select digital marketing tactics such that students can better understand how they operate, what roles they play in both the customer journey and the marketing plan as well as how to measure and optimize them. By the end of the course, students will be able to enter any company demonstrating a stronger digital profile elevating how they use and keep current on digital marketing to deliver on both customer experience and business objectives.

This class is full. Utilize the waitlist process below.

Pre-Requisite: MKT 203

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Nescio will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
MKT 390-1 Supervised Teaching- MKT 203 Spring 2023 2.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
1
Instructors: John Schloff
Description: This is the supervised teaching course for Professor Schloff's MKT 203 TA.
Offered: Fall Summer Winter
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering STR Courses
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
STR 221-1 Business Strategy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1235 1350 Gavett Hall Room 301 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
29 		Capacity     
45
Instructors: Roberto Colangelo
Description:

This course has six main learning objectives:

  • Develop the main frameworks and tools used in strategic analysis of an industry, business model or firm

  •  Develop process and tools to construct and describe a business model, strategy or vision based on strategic analysis

  • Develop process and tools to evaluate a business strategy

  • Develop the framework to understand strategy implementation and execution

  • Demonstrate the ability to think critically in relation to strategic problems

  • Recognize strategic decisions that present ethical challenges ​

Specific business strategy topics covered in the course:

  • Key competitive advantages: cost, value and niche based strategies

  • Strategies to create and sustain a competitive advantage and the role of resources and capabilities

  • Industry structure and attractiveness analysis

  • Rivalry and competitive dynamics

  • Product-market positioning strategies

  • Strategies for growth: organic, acquisition, product innovation and international expansion

  • Synergistic investments and market disruption

Prerequisite:  ECO207

** If the section is full, please contact ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist
Offered: Fall Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Business
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
BUS 201-1 Impactful Presentations Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Lechase Room 163 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
24
Instructors: Andrew Marsherall
Description: Impactful Business Presentations emphasizes the importance of effective verbal communication within a business setting. Students will be exposed to strategies that will enable them to communicate their ideas in a clear, persuasive, and memorable way. Students will therefore learn to produce and deliver impactful and engaging presentations in various business scenarios. By the end of the course, students will be able to function as proficient communicators who are ready to embrace the communicative challenges inherent in todays dynamic business environment.

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Marsherall will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Summer Winter
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BUS 217-1 Principles of Business Leadership Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Lechase Room 163 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
24 		Capacity     
24
Instructors: Andrew Marsherall
Description:

This course provides an overview of leadership in a business context, with a focus on leadership theories, approaches and styles. Students will gain an understanding of effective leadership in today’s business environment. Application of leadership principles is also emphasized with a focus on ethical considerations. The course also focuses on growing individual leadership abilities; students will identify their preferred leadership style and learn to develop their skills.

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Marsherall will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Spring
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BUS 221-1 Operations & Strategy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1025 1140 Morey Room 321 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
60 		Capacity     
80
Instructors: Henri Groenevelt
Description:
Operations Management is the systematic direction and control of the processes that transform inputs into finished goods or services. This course provides an introduction to the concepts and analytic methods that are useful in understanding the management of operations, whether they are done fully within a firm or using a supply chain that cuts across firm boundaries, and understanding the key role that operations play in firm strategy. This course gives an overview of operations strategy in a wide variety of industries such as: groceries, style goods, consumer electronics and services. The impact of shifts from traditional channels to e-commerce will be emphasized. New initiatives introduced to address these new challenges, such as vendor managed inventory (VMI), variety postponement, cross docking, real options contracts and quick response, will be studied and applied both in class and assignments.

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Groenevelt will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
BUS 221-2 Operations & Strategy Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1150 1305 Morey Room 321 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
65 		Capacity     
80
Instructors: Henri Groenevelt
Description:
Operations Management is the systematic direction and control of the processes that transform inputs into finished goods or services. This course provides an introduction to the concepts and analytic methods that are useful in understanding the management of operations, whether they are done fully within a firm or using a supply chain that cuts across firm boundaries, and understanding the key role that operations play in firm strategy. This course gives an overview of operations strategy in a wide variety of industries such as: groceries, style goods, consumer electronics and services. The impact of shifts from traditional channels to e-commerce will be emphasized. New initiatives introduced to address these new challenges, such as vendor managed inventory (VMI), variety postponement, cross docking, real options contracts and quick response, will be studied and applied both in class and assignments.

** If the section is full, please request the course here on UR Student and then email ugbusiness@rochester.edu to be added to the waitlist. Professor Groenevelt will not be able to override additional students; all requests must go through the ugbusiness@rochester.edu email.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
BUS 389-1 Business Research Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Wegmans Room 1009 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
25
Instructors: Ronald Schmidt
Restrictions: Not open to First Year and Sophomore - AS&E
Description: BUS 389 introduces seniors to business research exploring both the methodologies and data sources that academic researchers, business analysts and consultants, government employees, and researchers in think-tanks use. Students will complete individual and team assignments that involve gathering data and applying research methodologies to business research topics. For example, a research project might involve assessing whether customer satisfaction ratings have an impact on revenues or shareholder returns. The research methods examined include but are not limited to survey techniques, event studies and multivariate statistical analysis. The topics could include valuation, industry analysis, executive compensation, corporate governance practices and issues receiving attention in the business press at the time the course is offered.

After two introductory lectures, there will be four segments each based on one assignment. A segment will begin with a lecture discussing the analytical concepts and data that are relevant for the investigation of the assignment topic. In the following week, teams or individuals would think about how to apply the research concepts to the data and would meet with the instructor to establish a research plan. For individual assignments, the student would summarize his or her work with a short paper. For team assignments, the team would write a paper and make a presentation. We would repeat this sequence four times over the semester with two individual assignments and two team assignments. There will be no exams.

To enroll without permission of the instructor, the student must be a senior or junior that has completed FIN 205 and is majoring in business with a GPA of at least 3.0 in business courses.

Juniors/seniors minoring in business wanting to enroll need the permission of the instructor and must have completed FIN 205.
Offered: Fall Spring
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Chemical Engineering
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CHE 116-1 Numerical Methods and Stat Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 940 1055 Hylan Building Room 201 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
25 		Capacity     
42
Instructors: Matthew Yates
Description: This course provides an introduction to numerical methods andengineering statistics for chemical engineers. Students learn to usecomputer models and statistics to understand engineering systems. Thefocus of numerical methods is translating engineering problems intoalgorithms and implementing them in a spreadsheet or programminglanguage. Topics covered include basic data structures, programmingflow control, plotting, function minimization, integration anddifferential equations. The statistics portion teaches students basicprobability theory, the central limit theorem, hypothesis testing,confidence intervals, regression, model fitting and basic erroranalysis. Prerequisites:CHE 113, MTH 161 and 162 and MTH 165 (concurrently)
Offered: Spring
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CHE 226-1 Thermodynamics II Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Computer Studies Room 209 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
31 		Capacity     
42
Instructors: Alexander Shestopalov
Description: Advanced core chemical engineering course in classical thermodynamics and introduction to statistical mechanics. The classical laws of thermodynamics are covered with a particular emphasis on application to solution thermodynamics, phase equilibria and chemical equilibria. Concepts include fugacities and activities of species in solutions. Residual, partial and excess properties of mixtures and solutions. Vapor-liquid equilibrium in multicomponent systems. Reaction equilibria in multi-reaction and multi-phase systems. The course also covers elements of statistical thermodynamics and the interpretation of macroscopic thermodynamic properties through microscopic molecular states. Pre-requisite : CHE 225
Offered: Spring
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CHE 231-1 Chemical Reactor Design Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Hylan Building Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
42
Co-Located: CHE 231-1 (P), CHE 431-1
Instructors: Wyatt Tenhaeff
Restrictions: Not open to First Year and Sophomore - AS&E
Description: This course combines the concepts of mass balances, reaction rates, stoichiometry, and chemical equilibrium to introduce the fundamentals of chemical reactor design. Isothermal, uncatalyzed homogeneous reactions are considered initially, but more complex reactions, including heterogeneous, catalyzed reactions and biological reactions are also considered. Approaches to kinetic data acquisition and analysis techniques are presented, and then combined with knowledge of reaction mechanisms or the pseudo-state hypothesis to develop nonelementary rate laws. The course ends with nonisothermal reactor design. 400-level is for graduates only. Prerequisites:CHE 113, MTH 165, CHE 225, CHE 244
Offered: Spring
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CHE 243-1 Fluid Dynamics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Dewey Room 2162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
41 		Capacity     
60
Co-Located: CHE 243-1 (P), CHE 443-1
Instructors: David Foster
Description: An introduction to the basic fluid flow and conservation laws of transport phenomena including the principles and applications of fluid mechanics (momentum transport) to engineering problems. Topics include a detailed analysis of conservation of mass and momentum equations, microscopic and macroscopic balances, dimensional analysis and the application of fluid flow problems to chemical engineering. 400-level is for graduates only. Pre-requisites are PHY 121, MTH 164, MTH 165 (may be concurrent)
Offered: Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CHE 250-1 Separation Processes Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1525 1640 Bausch & Lomb Room 106 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
31 		Capacity     
48
Instructors: David Foster
Description: Application of mass transfer and thermodynamics to chemical separation techniques. Fundamentals and design of processes, such as distillation, absorption, extraction, and crystallization. Fixed-bed operations, such as ion exchange and chromatography, and membrane processes are also considered.

Prerequisites: CHE 113, 225, 244, or permission of instructor
Offered: Spring
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CHE 255-1 CHE Senior Design Lab Lecture Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 1150 1305 Hylan Building Room 102 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
28 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Melodie Lawton
Description: Operation and scale-up of chemical process equipment for chemical reaction and purification. Examination of the factors that affect performance in practice. Exploratory experiments and preliminary experimental design, as well as oral and written reports are required. PLEASE NOTE - TEAMS WILL BE ASSIGNED DURING THANKSGIVING BREAK. Students will register for the same day as their team, either Wed or Thurs 1-4pm. Labs will be viewable in the system after teams are assigned and students notified. Pre-req CHE 246
Offered: Spring
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CHE 262-1 Cell & Tissue Engineering Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Bausch & Lomb Room 269 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: BME 262-1 (P), BME 462-1, CHE 262-1, CHE 462-1, MSC 462-1
Instructors: Hani Awad
Description: This course teaches the principles of modern cell and tissue engineering with a focus on understanding and manipulating the interactions between cells and their environment. After a brief overview of Cell and Tissue Engineering, the course covers 5 areas of the field. These are: 1) Physiology for Tissue Engineering; 2) Bioreactors and Biomolecule Production; 3) Materials for Tissue Engineering; 4) Cell Cultures and Bioreactors and 5) Drug Delivery and Drug Discovery. Within each of these topics the emphasis is on analytical skills and instructors will assume knowledge of chemistry, mass transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and physiology consistent with the Cell and Tissue Engineering Track in BME. In a term project, students must present written and oral reports on a developing or existing application of Cell and Tissue Engineering. The reports must address the technology behind the application, the clinical need and any ethical implications. YOU MUST REGISTER FOR A RECITATION AND A LABWHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN COURSE. Prerequisites: BME 260, CHE225 (or ME123), CHE243 (or ME225), CHE244 and one of the following Cell Biology courses: BME211, BME411, BIO202 or BIO210; or permission of instructor.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHE 273-1 Proc Design and Simulation Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Hylan Building Room 202 03/13/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
28 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: CHE 273-1 (P), CHE 473-1
Instructors: Marc Porosoff
Description: The course is a process simulation course that covers material related to the conception and design of chemical processes. It requires the extensive use of computational methods/tools. The first half pf the course covers: heat exchanger network analysis using the pinch method for energy and environmentally efficient process design, the Problem Table algorithm, MER design using stream splitting and column integration in flow-sheets, grand composite curve development and its use for waste heat recovery by steam -raising, the formulation of the energy system design problem in terms of linear programming. The second part of the course will focus upon modeling process flowsheet dynamics, an integral part of the design process. The ability to use computational software packages like MATHEMATICA/MATLAB/EXCEL/ PYTHON will be expected in many of the homework assignments Pre-requisite: CHE 272
Course runs the second half of the semester, starts March 13th
Offered: Spring
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CHE 279-1 Chem Engineering Practice Spring 2023 1.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
F 1400 1515 Goergen Hall Room 108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
36
Instructors: Melodie Lawton
Description: Issues of relevance to the practice of chemical engineering. Topics include basic economic principles and marketing issues, ethics, plant safety, worker education and training and environmental implications in process designs. Students visit a local industry to gain perspective on the scale of a chemical process. Presentations by practicing engineers expose the versatility of a chemical engineering education.
Offered: Spring
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CHE 431-1 Chemical Reactor Design Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Hylan Building Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
30 		Capacity     
42
Co-Located: CHE 231-1 (P), CHE 431-1
Instructors: Wyatt Tenhaeff
Restrictions: Not open to First Year and Sophomore - AS&E
Description: This course combines the concepts of mass balances, reaction rates, stoichiometry, and chemical equilibrium to introduce the fundamentals of chemical reactor design. Isothermal, uncatalyzed homogeneous reactions are considered initially, but more complex reactions, including heterogeneous, catalyzed reactions and biological reactions are also considered. Approaches to kinetic data acquisition and analysis techniques are presented, and then combined with knowledge of reaction mechanisms or the pseudo-state hypothesis to develop nonelementary rate laws. The course ends with nonisothermal reactor design.
Offered: Spring
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CHE 443-1 Fluid Dynamics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Dewey Room 2162 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
41 		Capacity     
60
Co-Located: CHE 243-1 (P), CHE 443-1
Instructors: David Foster
Description: An introduction to the basic fluid flow and conservation laws of transport phenomena including the principles and applications of fluid mechanics (momentum transport) to engineering problems. Topics include a detailed analysis of conservation of mass and momentum equations, microscopic and macroscopic balances, dimensional analysis and the application of fluid flow problems to chemical engineering.Course has a lab and recitation component. 400-level is for graduates only. Pre-requisites are PHY 121, MTH 164, MTH 165 (may be concurrent)
Offered: Spring
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CHE 456-1 Electrochem Eng Fund&App Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Wilmot Room 116 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: CHE 456-1 (P), CHEM 259-1, CHEM 459-1
Instructors: Astrid Mueller
Restrictions: Instructor Permission
Description: The course will familiarize the student with important modern concepts in electrochemical engineering. The first half of the course focuses on understanding the theory behind fundamental electrochemical processes. It covers mass transfer in homogeneous and heterogeneous systems, thermodynamics, charged interfaces, electron transfer kinetics, and electrochemical methods. The second half of the course introduces advanced applications, with topics including electrocatalysis and electrolysis, corrosion, photoelectrochemical devices, and flow batteries. It enables the student to quantitatively and qualitatively assess problems and empirical data from the literature, and to summarize and explain seminal and recent electrochemical engineering literature and technologies.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHE 461-1 Advanced Chemical Kinetics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1650 1805 Dewey Room 2110D 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: CHE 461-1 (P), MSC 461-1
Instructors: Marc Porosoff
Description: This course will acquaint the student with advanced topics in chemical kinetics and reactor design. The first half of the course will focus on kinetics from a molecular point of view, including kinetic theory of gases, collision theory and activated complex theory. The second half of the course will transition into reactor design, with topics including surface reactions and catalysis, effects of transport limitations on reaction rate and non-ideal flow in reactors. The course will conclude with emphasis on current literature in the field including applications of heterogeneous catalysis, electrocatalysis and photocatalysis.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHE 462-1 Cell & Tissue Engineering Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 1220 Bausch & Lomb Room 269 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
35
Co-Located: BME 262-1 (P), BME 462-1, CHE 262-1, CHE 462-1, MSC 462-1
Instructors: Hani Awad
Description: This course teaches the principles of modern cell and tissue engineering with a focus on understanding and manipulating the interactions between cells and their environment. After a brief overview of Cell and Tissue Engineering, the course covers 5 areas of the field. These are: 1) Physiology for Tissue Engineering; 2) Bioreactors and Biomolecule Production; 3) Materials for Tissue Engineering; 4) Cell Cultures and Bioreactors and 5) Drug Delivery and Drug Discovery. Within each of these topics the emphasis is on analytical skills and instructors will assume knowledge of chemistry, mass transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and physiology consistent with the Cell and Tissue Engineering Track in BME. In a term project, students must present written and oral reports on a developing or existing application of Cell and Tissue Engineering. The reports must address the technology behind the application, the clinical need and any ethical implications. YOU MUST REGISTER FOR A RECITATION AND A LABWHEN REGISTERING FOR THE MAIN COURSE. Prerequisites: BME 260, CHE225 (or ME123), CHE243 (or ME225), CHE244 and one of the following Cell Biology courses: BME211, BME411, BIO202 or BIO210; or permission of instructor.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHE 465-1 Green Chemical Engineering Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1650 1805 Hylan Building Room 305 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CHE 465-1 (P), TEC 465-1
Instructors: Shaw-Horng Chen
Description: Elements of sustainable chemical processes. Transportation
fuels, bulk and fine chemicals derived from renewable resources-- e.g. animal fats,
plant seeds, lignocellulose, algae, and carbon dioxide. Use of environmentally
benign solvents-- e.g. ionic liquids, supercritical carbon dioxide, fluorous solvents,
and liquid polymer-- for chemical reactions and separations. Chemical reactions
activated by unconventional means-- e.g. ball milling, microwave heating, and
ultrasound irradiation-- requiring minimum energy, catalysts, and solvents.
Polymers produced from renewable resources, designed for recovery and recycling.
Chemical and enzymatic catalysis enhanced by process integration to minimize the
need for product separation and purification. Microreactor technologies to maximize
rates of heat & mass transfer, chemical reaction rates, product yields and selectivity,
in addition to facilitating process control, optimization, and scale-up.
Prerequisites: Organic Chemistry I, Fluid Dynamics, and Thermodynamics.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Course Course Title Term Credits Status
CHE 473-1 Proc Design and Simulation Spring 2023 2.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 900 1015 Hylan Building Room 202 03/13/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
28 		Capacity     
45
Co-Located: CHE 273-1 (P), CHE 473-1
Instructors: Marc Porosoff
Description: The course is a process simulation course that covers material related to the conception and design of chemical processes. It requires the extensive use of computational methods/tools. The first half pf the course covers: heat exchanger network analysis using the pinch method for energy and environmentally efficient process design, the Problem Table algorithm, MER design using stream splitting and column integration in flow-sheets, grand composite curve development and its use for waste heat recovery by steam -raising, the formulation of the energy system design problem in terms of linear programming. The second part of the course will focus upon modeling process flowsheet dynamics, an integral part of the design process. The ability to use computational software packages like MATHEMATICA/MATLAB/EXCEL/ PYTHON will be expected in many of the homework assignments

Course runs the second half of the semester, starts March 13th
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHE 496-2 Research Seminar Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 1525 1640 Gavett Hall Room 202 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
26 		Capacity     
48
Instructors: Marc Porosoff
Description: Departmental seminar. Graduate students must register, zero credits. Attendance is mandatory and letter-graded.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHE 497-01 Teaching Chem Engr Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: David Foster
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHE 497-02 Teaching Chem Engr Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Andronique Zacharakis
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHE 497-03 Teaching Chem Engr Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Douglas Kelley
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHE 497-04 Teaching Chem Engr Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Kenneth Marshall
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHE 497-05 Teaching Chem Engr Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Rachel Monfredo
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHE 497-06 Teaching Chem Engr Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Astrid Mueller
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHE 497-07 Teaching Chem Engr Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Alexander Shestopalov
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHE 497-09 Teaching Chem Engr Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Mitchell Anthamatten
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHE 497-10 Teaching Chem Engr Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
1 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Marc Porosoff
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHE 497-11 Teaching Chem Engr Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Wyatt Tenhaeff
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHE 497-12 Teaching Chem Engr Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Andrew White
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHE 497-13 Teaching Chem Engr Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Eldred Chimowitz
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHE 497-14 Teaching Chem Engr Spring 2023 3.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
0 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Matthew Yates
Description: Blank Description
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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CHE 497-15 Teaching Chem Engr Spring 2023 Lecture Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
Enrollment: Enrolled     
2 		Capacity     
10
Instructors: Melodie Lawton
Description: Teaching Assistant for Melodie Lawton
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
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Arts, Sciences, and Engineering New Department/Subject
Course Course Title Term Credits Status
DSCC 442-1 Network Science Analytics Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1525 1640 Computer Studies Room 601 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: CSC 402-1 (P), DSCC 442-1, ECE 442-1
Instructors: Gonzalo Mateos Buckstein
Description: The science of networks is an emerging discipline of great importance that combines graph theory, probability and statistics, and facets of engineering and the social sciences. This course will provide students with the mathematical tools and computational training to understand large-scale networks in the current era of Big Data. It will introduce basic network models and structural descriptors, network dynamics and prediction of processes evolving on graphs, modern algorithms for topology inference, community and anomaly detection, as well as fundamentals of social network analysis. All concepts and theories will be illustrated with numerous applications and case studies from technological, social, biological, and information networks. Prerequisites;

Some mathematical maturity, comfortable with linear algebra, probability, and analysis (e.g., MTH164-165). Exposure to programming and Matlab useful, but not required.
Offered: Spring
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